On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 16:37 -0700, AZ Pete wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping someone can help me with compiling and installing a SCSI RAID > controller driver. > > The controller in question is a LSI Megaraid Enterprise 1500 SCSI > controller. I'm trying to load Fedora Core 3. > > However, during the hardware detection phase, an error comes up saying that > there are no hard drives found. This server only has SCSI drives (no IDE) > on 2 different RAID channels. The current OS is Win2k and everything works > fine under windows. I'd like to convert this machine to Linux for some > internal dev work. Interestingly, if I load Redhat 9, it detects the > controller just fine and Disk Druid sees all the drives. I even booted > Linux BBC and it detected the controller and drives with no problems. It > seems that the controller is detected with kernel 2.4, but 2.6 doesn't have > the correct drivers. > > I contacted LSI and they said they don't support Fedora, but the driver > source is available for download. So, I downloaded the source for the 2.6 > kernel, but am now at a loss for how to proceed. > > All the instructions provided by LSI consists of re-compiling the kernel on > an existing installation to include the drivers within the kernel (or as > modules). > > I'd like to build a driver from this source and copy them to a driver disk > which I can then load during the Fedora install. > How is this done? If anyone can guide me in the right direction I'd > greatly appreciate it. ---- bugzilla is your friend and probably more helpful is try appending 'linux acpi=off' to the boot before pressing enter and see what happens Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss