As the author of the srpm you found I can tell you that it is very easy to update for kernels and drivers. I will try to keep it updated as long as I own the card and CentOS doesn't provide a kernel that has support for that card. The 8.0 version of smeserver is in development so I don't push things out as quickly for that version yet. I do keep the 7.0 version (based on CentOS 4.x) up to date as that is what I run on my production server. -Shad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Schaffner" <Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:34 PM Subject: [CentOS-devel] Areca RAID drivers >I have a CentOS-4 server with an Areca RAID that I would like to update > to CentOS-5. Have been building my own CentOS-4 RPMS based on > bodgit-n-scarper SRPM, but that is a kludge of a spec file that needs to > be hand-edited and rebuilt for each kernel. > > http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/download/centos4/SRPMS//kernel-module-arcmsr-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL-1.20.00.07-1.src.rpm > > Google found various interesting things for CentOS/EL-5: > > http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/26/p168 > http://faq.areca.com.tw/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=303 > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1958 > http://www.ehoeve.com/Centos5-Experimental/ > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/testing/8/smedev/SRPMS/arcmsr-kmod-1.20.0X.13-1.2.6.18_8.1.3.el5.src.rpm > > Karanbir provided driver disk images and indicated that kmod drivers > would be in CentOS-5 Extras, but apparently these never materialized. > The only src.rpm I could turn up was the last link above, and I did get > CentOS-5 x86_64 kmod-style drivers to build from that one. Found other > indications that these drivers MIGHT be in the standard 5.1 kernel. > > Before I proceed with a roll-your-own approach again, I would like to > inquire about the possibility of CentOS support for Areca RAID. Will > Extras or Plus kernel support be forthcoming? Should I hold off for > 5.1? > > Thanks, > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >