[WBEL-users] IBM x306 + aarich driver for SATA RAID (fwd)

[Michael Brennen]

I had to play some fairly serious games to load a IT8212 raid driver
on WBEL.  It started by compiling a versionless module on a Fedora C1
box, then copying the module to a vendor supplied RH9 driver diskette
(the only one supported at the time).  It was not detected correctly
of course, but at the stage where the installation process indicated
that no installation media was found I could flip to alt-f2 to the
shell prompt, then manually load the module from the floppy.  It was
not a pretty process, but I was able to make it work.  FWIW...

   -- Michael

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Scott McClintock wrote:

> I have an IBM x306 that I am trying to get linux loaded on... any
> Linux really ... just one that works .... Though WBEL would be the
> preference.
> 
> Anyway, I have a RAID 1 array configured in the Adaptec BIOS but I
> cannot get Linux to recognise it.  If I installed with linux dd
> noprobe, and use the IBM supplied aarich driver, it simply says that
> no suitable devices were found for the driver.  The driver pick list
> in both Fedora core 2 and WBEL 3 lists the Adaptec SATA RAID aarich
> driver but also does not recognise the array.