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.