[CentOS] Adaptec 6405 and Centos 5.6

Thu May 12 13:07:19 UTC 2011
Maciej Jan Broniarz <gausus at gausus.net>

Wiadomość napisana przez Akemi Yagi w dniu 2011-05-12, o godz. 02:29:

> 2011/5/11 Rainer Traut <tr.ml at gmx.de>:
> 
>> You could also ask on the elrepo mailinglist.
>> There was a request not too long ago.
>> 
>> http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2011-April/000637.html
>> 
>> So maybe you can install centos 5.4, then install their newer aacraid
>> driver and then you can update the kernel as well...
> 
> As Rainer said, this is best discussed on the ELRepo mailing list, but ...
> 
> There is a good chance that kmod-aacraid from ELRepo works on the
> Adaptec RAID in question.  To confirm this, it will be helpful to get
> the hardware fingerprint.
> 
> # lspci | grep -i raid
> 
> will show a line similar to:
> 
> 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID
> 
> Then running this:
> 
> lspci -n | grep 01:00.0
> 
> will display the vendor:device ID pairing.

Ok. I'll give it a try. Is there an easy way to install the driver during Centos install process. All disks in my server are connected to that Adaptec card.

All best,
mjb