experiences with PERC

[dsavage at peaknet.net]

On Tuesday December 16, 2003 Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo at warpdrive.net>
wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> 	I want to know if anyone has had any luck with getting fedora to
> install on an old dell box with a PERC 2 raid card.  I googled for
> device drivers, and came up with Dell's site, but none of the drivers I
> saw matched, they were PERC 3 and above.  Any ideas?  It's a decent box
> that I'd like to repurpose as a file/print/fax sharing machine.

Michael,

Try the megaraid.o driver. At one time Dell used customized AMI cards in
their PowerEdge servers. Later they developed their own PowerEdge RAID
Controller (PERC) cards. I don't recall the number where this transition
took place.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL