Install problems with Dell PowerEdge 2300 with Adaptech aic78xx scsi raid drives

[Thomas Cameron]

> chuck hodge wrote:
>> I cannot get fc3 to recognize my scsi drives on install. I have tried
>> using linux noprobe for the install and have selected just about every
>> driver offered but to no avail. Anybody with any answers out there? P.S.
>> RH8 installs just fine.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jan Morales" <jan at geezjan.org>
> To: <chodge2 at comcast.net>; "For users of Fedora Core releases" 
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Install problems with Dell PowerEdge 2300 with Adaptech 
> aic78xx scsi raid drives


> For what it's worth, I recently did an install on a PowerEdge 2850, and I 
> had to manually select the LSI RAID adapter. Perhaps that's what the 
> install is looking for on your server.

Totally different RAID controller.  The one he is dealing with is on a 
machine which was released back around 1998-1999.

The AMI (now LSI) controller back then was ther PERC2, and support for it 
(and therefore drivers for Linux 2.6) has been dropped by LSI.

Thomas