supermicro does have binary only drivers for FC3 and FC4 on their FTP server. Reportedly written by Adaptec. I looked in the BIOS to turn off the HostRAID, but there is no such option. Yelling at Adaptec does not help my issue, although it would be cathartic. I expect that I'll be more careful about the systems we by in the future. No more of this brand/device. So anybody have a howto on the procedure? I think I've got it now, and will be working on it today, but corroboration would be nice. either way I'll put a page together myself, once I figure it out. Thanks Bob Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Bob Kryger writes: > >> I have a supermicro system with this Adaptec HostRAID (not my idea). I'm >> trying to install FC3 or FC4, but they do not have drivers. I have >> downloaded the drivers, but I don't know exactly how to go through the >> install process. > > > Last time I checked, Adaptec offers binary-only drivers for some > ancient versions of Red Hat Linux only. > > Turn off Hostraid, use them as ordinary, garden-variety SCSI adapters, > and use Linux softraid instead. > >> not know the exact procedure. I've googled for it, but not found >> anything particularly helpful. > > > Go yell at Adaptec to release Hostraid as free software. > >
