Greetings, ----- Original Message ----- > > Upstream has also "abandoned" a significant number of hardware RAID > > cards and network cards in EL7. I have a few HP Proliant 64-bit > > servers that are about 6 or 7 years old... and the RAID card isn't > > detected in 7 where it was in 6. I've heard a few other people > > mention the same thing with regards to their NICs. > > What's the model? If you say "Promise", I don't blame upstream. Those > things were *horrible*. And a lot of RAID cards frankly weren't, they > offloaded a stack of the processing to the main CPU, with the result > of fragile integration and poor performance. Real RAID cards became > more and more difficult to find on hardware at about that time, cheapo > onboard controllers were replacing RAID cards. And oh, lord, those > MegaRAID chipsets weren't much better than Promise. I always had good > success with 3Ware: they just worked, and they cooperated with Linux > in getting the drivers working well. See chapter 24 of the Release Notes for a full list. There are quite a few: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.0_Release_Notes/Known-Issues-Kernel.html TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work]