Re: Installing Debian on PowerEdge 4300 with PERC 2 (Megaraid) controller

[tom@tomd.org]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:15:49PM -0400, Bill Cooper wrote:
> Hello,
>     has anyone sucessfully installed Potato on a Dell PowerEdge 4300 
> with the PERC 2/SC controller? I have tried to install it a few times 
> now, first with the Potato 2.2r2 standard rescue disk, but it pauses 
> indefinitely after detecting the PERC 2 (AMI) controller. Next I tried 
> using the standard rescue disk with a 2.2.18 kernel rebuilt with support 
> for the megaraid controller. This works up to the point where the file 
> system is written to the drive when the kernel reports controller 
> timeout errors and the install aborts.

I had similar problems with our PowerEdge 1300 and 2.2.18.  After searching the
kernel mailing lists I found out there there is a known issue with the megaraid
driver that ships with 2.2.18.  I emailed the folks at AMI, and they sent me
a beta driver that supposedly works with 2.2.x and 2.4.x.  So far it hasn't
worked for me, but they tell me it works for them, and that I need to update
my firmware.  Your other option is to build a kernel with the driver from
2.2.17 - all you need to do is copy over the megaraid.[ch].

Email me if you want the new driver - it's at work, or I'd send it to you now.
HTH -

Tom
tom@tomd.org