Installing amd64 on Adaptec 2015S (SmartRAID V) with dpt_i2o
Hi,
I just built a server which has dual Opteron 265, 4GB RAM, Adaptec 2015S zero-channel RAID
controller and 4 x Ultra320 10k SCSI drives.
I am having a problem installing Debian amd64, because of the 2015S card. This requires the dpt_i2o
driver, which is not included by default in Debian amd64.
An alternative would be the i2o_blocks module. I can install CentOS 4.1 x86_64 using i2o_blocks, but
there does not seem to be any way to do this with Debian.
I managed to get hold of Mark Salyzyn at Adaptec, and he sent me source code for the dpt_i2o driver
which he tells me should work in 64-bit mode. I could presumably build this into a custom kernel.
But I don't know how to do this while installing Debian from scratch.
So, I see three possibilities, but I don't know how to do any of them:
1. MANUAL MODULE SELECTION: Specify the i2o_blocks module (if it's actually on the install CD)
manually at install time with the Debian installer. I can't see any option for this.
2. DRIVER DISK: Compile the dpt_i2o source code and build a driver disk for Debian amd64 (if that's
even possible - should I be able to install using 'linux dd' with this port?)
3. CUSTOM KERNEL: Build a custom kernel from CentOS 4.1 x86_64 (which I can install using
i2o_blocks) and build in the dpt_i2o driver... but then, even if this works, how then to package up
and use this kernel at install time for Debian?
CentOS 4.1 does work, with i2o_blocks, but I would much rather be running Debian. Please help...
Thanks,
-Neil
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