FC3 install on Adaptec 2410SA - Adaptec says NO

[Samuel Díaz García]

I don't know if this can help you, but it works for me.
My system is a normal Athlon XP 1800 with the same controller as you.
I tried to install FC3 some times, but only the last clean install and 
booting were when I disabled the "write cache" for the drivers.

My 2410 is PCI64, but I put it in a PCI32 bus and it works well.

I hope this help you. Say us if that.

Salu2

Frank escribió:

> I have written several messages asking for help getting two systems with 
> Adaptec 2410SA SATA RAID cards working with Fedora Core 3.  Windows 
> installs on these systems, and I was successful in running FC3 on a 
> slightly different configuration of the exact same hardware (Only moved 
> the hard drives from one into another) for several weeks.  Despite that, 
> with the current (necessary) configuration, the FC3 causes the on-card 
> alarm to be triggered as soon as it gets to partitioning and reports 
> that the drives are not readable.
> 
> Here is Adaptec's response:
> ----
> 
>  The OS that you are using is not supported by this controller card.
>    The standard Fedora Core 2 kernel 2.6.5 , should though allow you to 
>  install, but Ralph  there are I/O errors reported under heavy loads.
>    The newer 2.6.7 and 2.6.8 killed the aacraid completely are   
> non-functioning as well.
>    I  2.6.9 (FC3) has not tested yet.
>    Driver and controller support is not provided for Fedora.
>    Changing motherboards and RAID type could definately have an impact 
> on   whether or not the installation was successful.
> ----
> 
> I don't know who Ralph is but the message is clear.  This is not a good 
> card for FC3.  Based on my apparent success with the first card I 
> purchased two more.  All three will live on my shelf for the forseeable 
> future, and I will order a 3Ware 8506-4LP to see how that works.
> 
> I hope this message saves somebody else the considerable aggravation 
> that I went through with the Adaptec cards.
> 
> Frank.
> 

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