On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Winnie Lacesso wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Dual Opteron with Supermicro H8DAR-T mobo including Adaptec Marvell
> Hercules 2 SATA hardware RAID controller (MV88SX6041 4-port
> SATA II PCI-X Controller); 2 disks. We have no other 64-bit machine.
> 
> SciLx can't see anything on that SATA disk controller without the
> aar81xx.rhel4qu1.x86_64.img driver from supermicro.
> But that locks the box into SL4.1 & kernel 2.6.9-11.
> 
> It's said that sata_mv driver, which should support MV88SX6041, is in
> later SL kernels - yes, it's in 2.6.9-42  -
> but yum update this box's kernel to 2.6.9-42 & try to boot -
> no joy, no drives seen.
> Is there a way to have this box use a later kernel, by some simple
> yum upgrade/update, that frees us from the aar81xx.rhel4qu1 driver?
> (rhel4qu1 is the latest version there is)
> 
> (total novice at initrd / kernel compile stuff; pointers to
> very straightfoward howto are welcome)
> 
> Is there truth to the rumor that the sata_mv driver does not
> support MV88SX6041, or does not support it well?
> 
> There is some howto w.r.t this wretched SATA ctrlr for FC3/4 which
> is helpful but complicated (to me). 
> It's said FC5 works out-of-the-box with this wretched SATA Ctrlr.
> 
> 
> The 40Rolling x86_64 is 2.6.9-42 but there are no ISOs yet.

There were isos for -42 last week.  I pulled them when I updated the tree 
to have -42.0.2 until I am done testing them.

> (Plus, we'd be a bit nervous of using Rolling.)
> All the rest are at best 2.6.9-34 but no sata_mv there.

There is a -4.0.2 in the security errata area.  You should be able to 
upgrade to it with  

  yum update kernel\*


I assume you have done this already as you said you tried the -42 kernel.

If you have either -42 or -42.0.2 installed what does a 

lspci 

show?

Have you asked SuperMicro when they will have a driver for the SATA in 
question for newer RHEL kernels.  Maybe a src.rpm so that you could make a 
new one as needed.

-Connie Sieh

> 
> Grateful for help.
> 
> 
> 
> PS Global applause to Troy Dawson, Connie Sieh, & all the rest of
> the SL crew. SL is an awesomely pleasant OS to use & support.
> You deserve some sort of global recognition!!
>