the recent discussion of support for Promise SATA drives reminded me that a while back i remember reading about a project to assemble a driver disk to provide wider hardware support than just stock CentOS. how's that coming along? i don't see anything in the wiki about it...
as i have a vested interest in this project (since i'm still relying on old MegaRAID controllers), i'd be willing to help out with it. what's the current status, and what needs doing?
thanks, -steve
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Steve Huff wrote:
the recent discussion of support for Promise SATA drives reminded me that a while back i remember reading about a project to assemble a driver disk to provide wider hardware support than just stock CentOS. how's that coming along? i don't see anything in the wiki about it...
one way to fix that, is to start a wiki page. I do still have some makefiles around and can resuscitate that project.
as i have a vested interest in this project (since i'm still relying on old MegaRAID controllers), i'd be willing to help out with it. what's the current status, and what needs doing?
stutus is that I asked for someone to help with it, and didnt get much of a response. Also the few major drivers that people wanted, got rolled in upstream ( 3ware / *sata / couple of network interface drivers ), so there was much steam lost.
- KB
Steve Huff wrote:
the recent discussion of support for Promise SATA drives reminded me that a while back i remember reading about a project to assemble a driver disk to provide wider hardware support than just stock CentOS. how's that coming along? i don't see anything in the wiki about it...
as i have a vested interest in this project (since i'm still relying on old MegaRAID controllers), i'd be willing to help out with it. what's the current status, and what needs doing?
thanks, -steve
Personally, I could seriously use one with good support for those crusty old megaraid controllers that doesn't involve the use of a floppy drive, I have an old PE6450 that I can't seem to get anything useful to run on, and it's old internal FDD is dead, and grafting a fresh one in didn't even slightly work after a lot of hassle/time spent. In general, as wide as possible of driver support, possibly selectable in the install process, or with a decently documented workaround to enable/disable would be the shizzle.
Peter
Peter Serwe wrote:
Personally, I could seriously use one with good support for those crusty old megaraid controllers that doesn't involve the use of a floppy drive, I have an old PE6450 that I can't seem to get anything useful to run on, and it's old internal FDD is dead, and grafting a fresh one in didn't even slightly
url with details on the driver, along with some test reports that it works on the specified hardware - that would be a good place to start.
- KB
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