[Grml] adp94xx driver

[Michael Prokop]

* David Koski <david at kosmosisland.com> [20070627 18:15]:
> On Wednesday 27 June 2007 06:09, Andreas Gredler wrote:

> > About grml and adp94: adp94 was dropped in the meantime because it never
> > compiled for newer kernel versions and aic94 worked for most
> > controllers. In fact, you are the first one who reports, that it doesn't
> > work (Maybe you enabled RAID in the BIOS?)
> > I will check again if newer adp94 versions will compile with 2.6.21
> > kernel and I also will precompile modules for debian etch. But this will
> > take some time, especially as IBM now uses LSI controllers instead of
> > Adaptec so my new Servers don't need adp94xx any longer.

> I am getting pressure to get this installed so I am on the verge
> of installing RedHat (sigh!) which is supported by Supermicro, the
> computer manufacturer.  I called Supermicro and they confirmed that
> the adp94 driver is necessary due to the 9410 chip.  I have Debian
> 4.0 installed on my computer and I installed 2.6.18 sources and
> compiled but the source code from Adaptec is not made to build
> on other than RedHat and SuSE.

We've had a patch for kernel 2.6.18-grml, if you didn't use that
patch yet you could give it a try at least:

http://hg.grml.org/grml-kernel/raw-file/d323a280b690/2.6.18/4130_linux-2.6-aic9400-adp94xx-updates.patch

HTH && regards,
-mika-
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