The aacraid driver was submitted to Alan Cox, but rejected because it has
too many "NTism's" in it, which are being addressed. Please see the Red Hat
Linux "Pinstripe" beta kernel source RPM for the source code, or contact me
privately.
Sincerely,
Matt Domsch
Dell Enterprise Systems Group
Linux Development Team
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce A. Locke [mailto:blocke@shivan.org]
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 7:37 AM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: PERCRAID 3 drivers?
>
>
>
> Hello...
>
> The organization I do some work for purchased a rackmount server from
> Dell with the intent of running some webconferencing software under
> Linux. The salesman we had spoken to assured us that Linux fully
> supported the machine. <sarcasm> Yeah... Right... </sarcasm> :)
>
> Now it seems I'm stuck with a PERCRAID 3 card that only has
> support in
> the form of a binary kernel module for kernel 2.2.14 (w/ redhat's
> patches). While the box runs fine with this kernel, I would definatly
> like to upgrade the kernel to something that doesn't have so
> many known
> flaws ;) The machine is already in use so switching raid
> cards isn't much
> of an option at this time.
>
> A check of Dell's (rather horrible) support website only turns up the
> binary module mentioned above. Does anyone know anything about these
> PERCRAID 3 cards and if there is an opensource driver? or at least a
> binary module for a newer kernel?
>
> Thanks for your time...
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Bruce A. Locke
> blocke@shivan.org
>
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