[BlueOnyx:05787] Re: ADAPTEC AIC-9404

[Gerald Waugh]

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:44 -0600, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
wrote:
> Gerald Waugh wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 14:23 -0600, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> >> I have some servers with Adaptec AIC-9404 RAID controllers.
> >> And they will not work with BO.
> >> When running install, craps out right after "running /sbin/loader"
> > 
> > looks like I need a driver to load.
> > has to be centos 5.5, I found a 4.0 one, but that wouldn't work.
> > Dam and I thought the hot-swap drives would be great...
> 
> If it needs a driver, that means it's fake-RAID and is generally not to 
> be trusted.   Is this an on-board RAID controller or a PCIx card?  I'm 
> not familiar with the 9404...


It's a pci module that plugs into the mb
problem is the interfaces to the hot-swap drive interface module.
The NuOnce 4.8 CD did the full install, but could not find the drives on
reboot. 

-- 
Gerald