Adaptec 29160 with a RHEL 3

[Margaret_Doll]

On Monday, January 16, 2006, at 08:13 AM, James Marcinek wrote:

> General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Margaret,
>>
>> There should be a readme file included with the driver. /*Off the bat,
>> I suggest you untar it, cd to the folder and run make and make
>> install. If i know Adaptec, there should be an info message once the
>> make install is done. At that point you can try loading the new
>> modules using modprobe and after that running kudzu to see if it picks
>> up on the hardware. If it doesnt, I think you can change modules.conf
>> and associate the scsi host adapater with the new module name, that
>> should load the bugger on boot.. */
>>
>> Please note that tinkering with that kind of stuff may hose the system
>> to the point where it would require rescuing, [happened to me last
>> Friday] so I would'nt do any of the above remotely and of course not
>> on a production system.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On 1/14/06, Margaret_Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>> *****************
>>> 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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> You could take the tarball and turn it into an rpm. That would make it 
> easier to
> recover. Someone may have already done it if your lucky.

I downloaded aic7Yxx-2.0.15-6.3.11-linux-2.4.tar which is the "SCSI 
Driver Source Code
for Linux Kernel Versions 2.4.  I have 2.4.21-31.EL on my system.

There is a Makefile in the tar set but no configure option.  The Readme 
file talks about
options to add in /etc/modules.conf but not on how to build the driver.

"make" in the top directory indicates that the

Makefile:58: /Rules.make: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/Rules.make'.  Stop.

"make" in a subdirectory ( aicasm) works.

How do I make an rpm from the aic7xxx source tar file?

This is for a production system, but I have another system I could 
"play" with.
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