Messages in this thread |  | | From | Heitzso <> | Subject | fyi megaraid problems | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:50:54 -0500 |
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don't know if this has been covered/studied
datapoints I've run across re the megaraid (scsi raid driver, american megatrends)
box: Dell PowerEdge 2300, 2 cpus, 1G RAM
hard drive setup as single drive via raid controller
RH6.1, compiled 2.2.13, megaraid works!
RH7.0 install/upgrade breaks on megaraid then, after forcing RH7.0 upgrade by hand (completely snuffed up with all updates as of jan 23 am ...) RH7.0 kernel (out of the rpm box 686 smp) breaks on megaraid RH7.0 2.2.16 kernel source from rpm compiled using 2.2.13 .config file and make oldconfig generates kernel that breaks on megaraid (used RH provided scripts to compile with kgcc) 2.2.18 kernel (kernel.org) compiled with gcc on RH7.0 breaks on megaraid during boot
BUT! 2.4.1pre10 (kernel.org), compiled with gcc on RH7.0 the megaraid driver works again!
I was surprised that even 2.2.18 breaks then 2.4.1pre10 works, given RH's alliance with Dell.
I compiled a 2.4.0 and set it up in lilo.conf but haven't tried booting to it.
If it's useful to anyone, now that I have a good booting kernel I could recompile the old 2.2.13 setup and see whether the problem is due to a bad compiler env in RH7.0 or due to a bad megaraid module (i.e. if kernel that works fine now compiled under 6.1 breaks when recompiled under 7.0 then bug is in the RH7.0 compiler env; else bug is in megaraid shipped with 2.2.16, 2.2.18)
Let me know if someone needs a datapoint.
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