Status of Adaptec Hostraid support.

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Eric Wood <eric at interplas.com> said:
> I use LSI's 320-1 raid card in conjuction with a 5-bay SuperMicro cage.
> It's really flexible to configure and not that much money.   In order to get
> LSI raid utility (megamgr) to work, you may have to roll your own kernel
> because RH's stock errata kernel do not come with the latest LSI drivers -
> for some reason.  Newer LSI drivers would seem harmless to roll out, IMHO,
> in an errata kernel but I guess RH is playing it safe.

I have not found it required that the kernel needs replacing.  I've run
the latest megamgr from LSI on RHL 8.0, RHL 9, FC1, and RHEL 3 ES
"stock" kernels with no trouble (it even has a couple of extra status
options that the RAID BIOS manager doesn't have).

On the subject of megaraid though: what is the difference between the
megaraid and megaraid2 drivers?  RH picks megaraid by default, but is
there some reason I'd want to switch?

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.