[WBEL-users] New to Whitebox. Kernel Upgrade?

[Scott Silva]

Robert Heller spake the following on 7/13/2006 8:52 AM:
> At Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:29:04 +0200 Hermann Thomas <h.thomas at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Robert,
>> the reason is That I got this Promis FastTrak 4310 Sata Raid Controler. 
>> The Driver you get at Promise
>>
>> is written for that Kernel. All though I haven't tried with a newer 
>> Kernel jet. It doesn’t work with the
>> one coming out of the Whitebox install though. First I will try with the 
>> one I can get at centos.
> 
> Does the driver come in source form?  If so, you'll need to compile it,
> if you don't have the *exact* same kernel Promise built the driver
> against. Be sure to get and install the kernel development package
> along with the kernel itself. If it is closed source, you are basically
> screwed -- you'll be stuck with whatever distro and kernel version
> Promise used.  It might in fact be cheaper and easier to toss the
> Promise FastTrak 4310 Sata Raid Controler and get something supported.
> 
> If the controller worked with the Suse distro you are used to, you
> *might* be able to install the Suse kernel RPM on your WBL 4.x system.
> 
>> I will know in a few hours when I get back to the Server.
The 4310 is a software based raid (fakeraid) card. Does Linux see the drives
on this card, maybe as separate drives?


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