From: Hubert Mantel [mailto:mantel@suse.de]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: SLES8 megaraid driver upgdate


Hi,

On Fri, Jan 03, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> What are your plans (and those of UnitedLinux I suppose) regarding releasing
> updates, fixes, driver disks, etc. for SLES8, and how can we be of help?
> I'd like to be able to tell our customers that yes, SLES8 works all Dell
> PowerEdge servers, and if you're planning on picking up the newer megaraid
> driver in a future kernel update, and a driver disk gets made for now, I
> think we'll be covered for a while.

I already made a driver update disk. Unfortunately, we found a bug in the 
core kernel, but the disk works for an install.

If you use attached driver update disk, the controller will be detected. 
But besides the RAID it will also detect some non-existant "phantom 
drives" and will also list the individual disks of the RAID. So in order 
to do the install, the user should do a manual partitioning because 
otherwise the installer will pick the individual disks, which is not what 
one wants ;(

Attached please find the driver update disk that is needed for 
initial installation of the system (with above mentioned quirks).

Anyway, at least the installation works fine, and we did not
experience other problems besides the cosmetical detection of the
additional drives.  We're developing a newer kernel which people
should update to after initial installation. This new kernel contains
the new megaraid driver and of course also has the problem with the
drive detection fixed.  It should be available in a few weeks.


    Hubert Mantel              Goodbye, dots...                   /\\
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