Problems with Adaptec RAID

[Shane Archer]

Hi all,

I've been working on and off on making an Adaptec 2810SA card work 
correctly with FC3; the card originally had problems with the board I was 
using it with, but the latest BIOS revision from Adaptec (7348) seems to 
have fixed that. However, after updating the BIOS, it has "broken" the 
kernel. The system hangs at the "Ok, booting the kernel" message.

Adaptec provides some updated drivers for the card on their site, listed 
for various flavors of RedHat and SuSE:
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/drivers_by_product.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=AAR-2810SA&cat=%2fProduct%2fAAR-2810SA

Now, at this point and with my limited knowledge of linux so far, what 
would I have to do to make aacraid work with my install again? The system 
is running 2.6.10. Since the kernel is the kernel, I would think that even 
though Adaptec's drivers are "for" RedHat, they should work with 
FC3...right? Or am I missing some major fact here?

Thanks!


Shane