RE: [SLE] SuSE 9.2 and Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID

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Hiya! I'm trying to get SuSE 9.2 up and running from a system with an

Adaptec

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2100S SCSI RAID controller, and I want to run the system entirely on

I reinstalled using the i2o_core and i2o_block drivers, the system now runs fine, but I can't use any of the Adaptec utilities to manage the arrays and have it send me warning e-mails. For that I'll need the Adaptec drivers.

Do you happen to know where I can find them? I've surfed around on Adaptec's site but I haven't found anything useful, it seems like the only release pre-built binaries for systems up to kernel 2.4, and the sources doesn't seem to be available either.

Anders.

Not more than a couple of weeks back, Phillipp Thomas said this as part of the thread [SLE] Installing SuSE 9.2 onto Adaptec HostRaid:

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It's unfortunate that I cannot get hardware raid to work,

Complain to Adaptec who don't want to offer an open source driver or at least the specs to enable the community to come up with a driver.

Philipp

So it seems maybe Adaptec support is limited by their own policies. Seems a pity.

Yep.. They offer me to get the 2130SLP or 2230SLP instead. Which of course would make me swap motherboard as well since those two doesn't work in 32-bit PCI slots. I could fix that, but those controllers cost more than twice the cost of the motherboard. Geee.. They don't want to release newer drivers for any *nix, but they still update the Windows 2000, XP and 2003 drivers. Like any serious server owner would run a Windows server? Anyway, there must be a solution to this somewhere, it's just the question of finding it. I can run i2o_core and i2o_block, but then I can't use the alert system. This really is annoying. Anders.