Thanks for your help. This IS WHILE installing centos 4.2. I can't install centos because of this problem with the card or the drives (not sure which one). My install is i386 while the drivers that are on the software cd are rhel4 i686. The file is uploaded here: http://d.turboupload.com/d/269154/dd.img-i686.html
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:22 AM To: CentOS ML Subject: Re: [CentOS] pci sata raid card
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:56 -0800, Noel Sanchez wrote:
Using centos 4.2. Trying to install pci sata raid card, Pacific Digital QM-4300R10. Raid card box reads that it supports linux. raid software has rhel 4.0 dd image. I write to floppy and use linux dd to "try" install drivers on my centos 4.2. I see the card in the list that centos gives me after loading the drivers, but when I try to use them, it doesn't do anything. Nothing works. I've read that rhel 4.0 drivers will not work on centos 4.2. What I do? Is it my sata drives or the pci raid card or both? What is recommended? Should one use regular sata drives and use them on the motherboard and use linux software raid? What do others use? and how? Should one contact Pacific Digital for correct drivers? Do i need to compile centos drivers from the rhel 4.0 drivers? Are there any pci sata raid controllers that work right out of the box on centos 4.2?
First ... a dd image is used to do an image WHILE installing RH or CentOS. You need a different image for normal operations. Is this during an install of CentOS, or are you adding it to an already running server?
Second ... Precompiled drivers are for a specific kernel version, and if you want to use the precompiled driver, you need to use the kernel it was built for. CentOS kernels WILL USE drivers compiled for RHEL AS IS.
I tried looking up that card on the internet, but could find no drivers or website that was in English.