upgrade problem: FC1 - FC3 Poweredge 650 ATA 100/4CH

Gain Paolo Mureddu gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx
Mon Jan 24 19:08:27 UTC 2005


Chris Adams wrote:

>Once upon a time, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> said:
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>
>>On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:05:50AM +0100, G?tz Reinicke wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>I recently tried to upgrade one Poweredge 650 with a ATA 100/4CH 
>>>controller from Fedora Core 1 to FC 3. Latest BIOS/firmware is installed.
>>>
>>>The system boots but tells me that there is no harddrive found to 
>>>install, and I have to manually select a driver.
>>>      
>>>
>>The megaraid_mbox driver in FC3 no longer supports the ATA 100/4Ch
>>card.  And the older 'megaraid' driver isn't built in FC3 gold (though
>>I believe it is built in errata or development FC kernels, for exactly
>>this reason).
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>I've got a FC3 driver disk for the "old" megaraid driver available at
>
>http://www.iruntheinter.net/files/misc/megaraid-dd.zip
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>Unzip the contents to the root of a DOS formatted floppy.
>
>The driver is included with the current FC3 errata kernels.
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>
Only it has to be built to work with the 2.6.9 kernel, and probably gcc 
3.3.3 to avoid unresolved symbols?
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