<div class="gmail_quote">On 29 March 2011 21:51, Alan Cox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk">alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:24:33 +0100<br>
Aaron Gray <<a href="mailto:aaronngray.lists@gmail.com">aaronngray.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I need to get to the command line to do a 'modprobe DAC960' on installing<br>
> Fedora.<br>
><br>
> Is this possible ?<br>
<br>
</div>It should automatically load the module providing it is on the image. It<br>
could be the autoload is failing for some reason or the driver is broken,<br>
or its not on the boot image.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately the one person who really knew it and looked after it<br>
(Leonard Zubkoff) died in an accident some years ago. It no longer really<br>
gets much attention as it's little used and IBM who bought Mylex who<br>
produced it have long dropped it too.<br>
<br>
In fact I think you are the first reference I've seen to it in use for a<br>
couple of years !<br>
<br>
Probably the best strategy is to investigate using a live image and see<br>
what "dmesg" shows and what occurs if you try and load it. That may give<br>
the info needed for someone to get it going.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks Alan,</div><div><br></div><div>So possible the driver code got broken in newer kernels. I know FC4 used to use Kudzu and moving to FC5 the detection of the 960's no longer worked in Anaconda.</div>
<div><br></div><div>How does driver detection work now, is it the same for all Linux distros now ?</div><div><br></div><div><div>Like you said I'll try a live distro and dmsg anyway, and see if that reveals any more info.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>Its more than a couple of years since I removed the RAID cards, the poor old Primergy 470's servers are not as fast as with the DAC960's.</div><div>I would really like to get the DAC960 working again.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Aaron</div><div><br></div></div>