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!! >