[rhelv6-list] Red Hat 6.2 update woes

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Bill Watson <bill at magicdigits.com> wrote:
>> I saw a mention of  kmod-aacraid-1.1.7-3.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm  over
>> on Dag's http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/ that sounded
>> really tempting to install, but I don't know if it would blow up my
>> working original kernel or not.
>> Until I am confident of a direction, I'd kind of like to keep this
>> kernel working so I can continue to try this and that.
>
> To install RHEL, you'd need a driver disk for the Adaptec card. ELRepo (Phil
> Schaffner) provides one for the the 6000 series here:
>
> http://www.elrepo.org/people/pschaff/dud/
>
> as DUP_el6_i686_20111230.iso.gz (32-bit) and DUP_el6_x86_64_20111230.iso.gz
> (64-bit). More details can be found
> here:
>
> http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=206
>
> Will be great if you can test it.
>
> Akemi
> --------------------------------------------------
> I downloaded this iso.gz and found it had the kmod-aacraid-1.1.7-1. rpm, but
> interestingly it had a different number of bytes than the same named rpm
> from elrepo.org. There is no clear indication, but I currently presume that
> the 7-3 rpm is newer thanthe 7-1 one and hopefully this makes is a better
> choice.
> Bill

I'm sure Phil (ELRepo) will update the driver disk file with the
latest aacraid driver. I think the file name should contain the driver
version rather than (or in addition to) the date. :)

Akemi