Yes, I did an install with noprobe as an option and did not load the serveraid driver and before I rebooted into the new install I added that driver to the blacklist. I do not need the raid card atm since not using in raid on the machine. Also not sure but I am guessing that the Dell adaptec scsi controller is similar ibm serveraid 8 series cards that are adaptec. I was never able to get the serveraid 8i in one machine to work with FC5 as it would kernel panic. I believe that the FC5 is missing some kernel patches (or at least at the time I did the install it did) for it to work with the latest adaptec chipset. Though after FC5 x86_64 and i386, I install Redhat 4as x86_64 on to the machine which was an IBM support OS. IBM is currently working with adaptec on that very same machine figure out a bug in the firmware / hardware of that card. The bug is something that would cause drives in a raid array to randomly jump out of the array and be marked bad or in some cause the raid card would completely forget about the drive. The drives where all good also except for one one time. On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:46 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > Adam Hough wrote: > > Question is the Dell/adaptec SCSI controller actually controlling any of > > the disk? > > If it is not controlling any of the disk and the aacraid kernel module > > is load it might confuse the kernel module and cause a panic. I have an > > ibm server that has a serveraid card in it that caused FC6 to crash on > > install. > > > Adam, > > Thanks, that's a good idea for an avenue of investigation! > > Did you manage to get your IBM server with the raid card work? > > > - Mike > -- Adam Hough High Performance Computing Computing Services Center 200 225-578-7202 fax: 225-578-6400 ahough@xxxxxxx
