On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:15:49PM -0400, Bill Cooper wrote: > Hello, > has anyone sucessfully installed Potato on a Dell PowerEdge 4300 > with the PERC 2/SC controller? I have tried to install it a few times > now, first with the Potato 2.2r2 standard rescue disk, but it pauses > indefinitely after detecting the PERC 2 (AMI) controller. Next I tried > using the standard rescue disk with a 2.2.18 kernel rebuilt with support > for the megaraid controller. This works up to the point where the file > system is written to the drive when the kernel reports controller > timeout errors and the install aborts.
I had similar problems with our PowerEdge 1300 and 2.2.18. After searching the kernel mailing lists I found out there there is a known issue with the megaraid driver that ships with 2.2.18. I emailed the folks at AMI, and they sent me a beta driver that supposedly works with 2.2.x and 2.4.x. So far it hasn't worked for me, but they tell me it works for them, and that I need to update my firmware. Your other option is to build a kernel with the driver from 2.2.17 - all you need to do is copy over the megaraid.[ch]. Email me if you want the new driver - it's at work, or I'd send it to you now. HTH - Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
