Proliant CSB-6 Raid Drivers for Fedora

[AWC Maillists]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>>Errr, you do if the Kernel does not even recognize the controller drives 
>>at all.  (Which it does not with this esoteric controller.)
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> if I can see lspci and lspci -n maybe we can add that.
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>> And I am 
>>always amazed how people seems to think using software raid is as good a 
>>solution as using hardware raid.  Come on, there is no comparison, 
>>hardware RAID is faster and more reliable and has little to no CPU 
>>overhead.  Software raid can be CPU intensive and not as reliable.
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> Note that we're talking about csb6 raid here. That *IS* software raid.
> You just get it from a binary driver instead of an open linux driver;
> but it's still software raid done by the main cpu.
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Server:
HP Proliant ml330 g3

Onboard IDE controller for CD-ROM and one hard drive (only have CD-ROM 
connected to this right now)
CSB-6 onboard raid controller w/no drives connected right now
	I can install a blank drive if you want.
So with the above two IDE controllers, a total of six IDE drives can be 
installed onto the machine.

Adapatec RAID 2410SA controller w/enclosure kit
	w/RAID5 w/4x300mb driver
	Everything is installed onto this array
768MB RAM
Fedora Core 2 w/all updates installed (using up2date using standard 
update site configured out of the box) including kernal

Sorry, no FC3RC5 anymore, the server has to be deployed next week, so I 
can not play with the release candidates anymore. :(

I suspect the output would be the same as FC3RC5 did not detect any 
drive attached to this controller during the setup process either.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32)
00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge
00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
00:05.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced System 
Management Controller
00:06.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0217 (rev a0)
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks CSB6 South Bridge (rev a0)
00:0f.1 RAID bus controller: ServerWorks CSB6 RAID/IDE Controller (rev a0)
00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks CSB6 OHCI USB Controller (rev 05) 
00:0f.3 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCLE-2 Host Bridge

lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1166:0017 (rev 32)
00:00.1 Class 0600: 1166:0017
00:03.0 Class 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 27)
00:04.0 Class 0200: 14e4:16a6 (rev 02)
00:05.0 Class 0880: 0e11:a0f0
00:06.0 Class 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 01)
00:0e.0 Class 0101: 1166:0217 (rev a0)
00:0f.0 Class 0601: 1166:0203 (rev a0)
00:0f.1 Class 0104: 1166:0213 (rev a0)
00:0f.2 Class 0c03: 1166:0221 (rev 05)
00:0f.3 Class 0600: 1166:0227

I hope this helps.