Adaptec 29160 with a RHEL 3

[Margaret_Doll]

I have just upgraded a server from an old Dell to a Dell Optiplex GX 
620 which has a SATA drive.  I have added an adaptec 29160 scsi pci 
card to the system.  I am running RHEL Update 6 so that the system 
could see the drives.

Adaptec has not written a driver for RHEL Update 6.  I looked on their 
pages; I called Adaptec for confirmation.

I have downloaded the aic7Yxx-2.0.15-6.3.11-linux-2.4.tgz  which is the 
source for the driver.  How do I build the driver and add it to the 
system.

I understand that I can add the driver module to /etc/modules.conf once 
it is built; I don't have to rebuild the kernel.

I did see the following mail on the redhat mailing list that indicates 
that my attempts may be futile.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list redh
at com>
Subject: RE: Need drivers for sata hard drive
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:50:07 -0400

As far I know you CAN NOT mix SATA and SCSI disks.   Must be
IDE and SATA or SCSI only.

I tried it to see what happens and it totally messes up drive
  tables.

SATA uses SCSI emulation system.  SATA drive shows up as /dev
/sda1 (for example).

Don't know if the problem is unique to RHEL 3 or all Linux.

Marcelino
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