Re: [ILUG] Perc 2.si

From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Mon 24 Jul 2000 - 20:13:25 IST


> I have a Dell poweredge 2400 that I am trying to install Redhat 6.2
> on. I am having a difficult time in trying to get the OS to recognize
> the Raid controller I am using.

> From what I have read, I have not seen a way to get the Perc 2/si to
> be recognized by Linux. I was wondering if anyone has had success,
> and if so, where did they find the boot disk/ drivers for this card?

*Most* of the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) cards are rebadged
AMI MegaRAID cards - you need to install the 'megaraid' module. The
onboard SCSI controllers are an Adaptec 7890 (the hard disk controller)
and an Adaptec 7880 (the CDROM) - the 'aic7xxx' SCSI module should take
care of these.

             Colm

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