[CentOS] how to use an Adaptec RAID 51645

Mon Aug 5 10:40:39 UTC 2019
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 2019-08-05 12:30, schrieb Alexander Dalloz:
> Am 2019-08-05 12:24, schrieb Ralf Prengel:
>> Hallo,
>> has anyone a hint how to use an Adaptec RAID 51645 under Centos 7?
>> 
>> A volume is created using the controller interface but isn't active
>> under centos.
>> 
>> Thanks for hintsts
>> Ralf
> 
> That's a pretty old RAID controller. Kernel module support for such
> old cards have been dropped by RHEL. Check the ELrepo for a matching
> package.
> 
> https://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-aacraid
> 
> should be a fit.
> 
> Alexander

It would be helpful to check the PCI IDs of that card using "lspci -n" 
or "lspci -nn". I just saw the current EL7 kernel provides

# ls -Al 
/lib/modules/3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/aacraid/
total 56
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 56884 Jul 29 20:07 aacraid.ko.xz

and "modinfo aacraid" shows a long list of supported devices.

According to 
https://adaptec.com/de-de/speed/raid/aac/linux/aacraid_linux_rpms_v1_1_7-29100_tgz.php 
the module should be a fit for the Adapted RAID 51645.

Alexander