RE: How to compile driver for ITE 8212?

[Jussi Silvennoinen <jussi_taroon silvennoinen net>]

> Thanks Brian, That got me started. 
> 
> Now the driver is compiled and installed and I can see it with "modinfo
> iteraid" and "lspci".
> 
> Now, I cannot tell if the OS is finding the disk that is attached to the
> controller. I don't think that it is. (I know that the disk is found when I
> boot to WinXP.) Years ago when I worked on SGI machines, they had a command
> "hinv" to print out the hardware inventory. Is there anything like this in
> RHEL3?
> > 
> > Install the RPM called kernel-source (with the same version as your
> > running kernel).  This includes the kernel source files and can be used
> > to build the module.

Did you actually load the driver? Modinfo doesn't do that and lspci just 
prints PCI-bus information. Nothing regarding the actual driver AFAIK.
'modprobe iteraid' and 'dmesg' after that. 'fdisk -l' should 
show a unpartitioned drive afterwards.

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  Jussi