Re: missing driver in the AMD-64 version of AS3...

[Jeffrey Lane <bladernr samuraipoet com>]

Yes... I found that out by looking through the source.. so it explains 
why I couldnt install on the ServRAID cards...

SO, for those who want to know... this is what I did:

vi the ips.c in /usr/source/linux-2.4/drivers/scsi/ and I commented out 
those lines that are shown below:

Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:

> #if !defined(__i386__) && !defined(__ia64__)
> #error "This driver has only been tested on the x86/ia64 platforms"
> #endif

BTW, you can comment them out by placing a // in front of each line, or 
/* before the if line, and a */ after the endif line (for those who dont 
know c all that well.)

next, I did the usual kernel compile steps:

make clean
make mrproper
cp configs/<version>-x86_64.config .config
make menuconfig

turned on the IBM ServRAID support (set to M for module) then:

make dep && make SUBDIRS=drivers/scsi modules

after that ran, copied the newly created ips.o to 
/lib/modules/<version>/kernel/drivers/scsi/

and then insmodded the driver.  it worked, saw both the cards and the 
raid arrays that were connected to each card.

I am letting it test overnigth to check to see that it will at least 
allow read/writes and such, but so far so good, so while YMMV, I dont 
see any problem with this driver on an AMD 64.

> it looks like driver only works on i386 and ia64.

Officially, yes, but unofficially, no, it does work on an AMD 64.

Hope that helps someone out there...