[CentOS] Adaptec 6405 and Centos 5.6

[Les Mikesell]

On 5/10/2011 10:17 AM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:
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> Wiadomość napisana przez Les Mikesell w dniu 2011-05-10, o godz. 17:07:
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>> On 5/10/2011 9:53 AM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Centos 5.6 doesn't detect any disks connected to an Adaptec 6405 RAID Controller. The hardware isn't brand new to the market, so what might be the issue here? It seems, that the driver is missing for that particular card.
>>>
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>> I don't know about that particular device, but I've seen RAID
>> controllers where you had to run their bios setup utility to add disks
>> and create volumes even if you only want a single disk per volume.  The
>> OS only sees the volumes as logical drives.  Or have you already done
>> that step?
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> I have and array setup in the controlers BIOS. What i need to do is to install centos on the logical volume. Still, Centos 5.6 seems not to have any drivers for Adaptec 6405.

Maybe it needs a newer aacraid driver than what is included.  Have you 
tried the 1.1.7 driver disk that you can download from the adaptec site?

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  Les Mikesell
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