Dell PERC RAID Controller

Greetings everyone,

After much frustration in trying to get Debian GNU/Linux (my distro of choice) installed on a Dell PowerEdge 2450, I've finally found success!

My problem was finding kernel support for the onboard PERC 3/Si RAID Controller (Adaptec OEM chipset) so that I could store my root fs with a RAID array container. Turns out that Adaptec has recently open-sourced the driver; however, it hasn't been accepted into any of the Linux kernel trees as of yet. So, I tracked down the driver sources (many thanks to Matt), patched them (5 patches in total) into 2.2.18, and built my own, new patch file to incorporate the aacraid 1.0.6 driver into this kernel in one, easy step.

For anyone who's interested, you'll find the patch, a patched 2.2.18 kernel source archive, Debian (potato) installation disk images (with this new kernel), and other info at:

http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html

Regards,
Kevin Traas
Chief Information Officer
Merilus Technologies, Inc. .:|| Thinking inside the box ||:.

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