upgrade problem: FC1 - FC3 Poweredge 650 ATA 100/4CH

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> said:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:05:50AM +0100, G?tz Reinicke wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently tried to upgrade one Poweredge 650 with a ATA 100/4CH 
> > controller from Fedora Core 1 to FC 3. Latest BIOS/firmware is installed.
> > 
> > The system boots but tells me that there is no harddrive found to 
> > install, and I have to manually select a driver.
> 
> The megaraid_mbox driver in FC3 no longer supports the ATA 100/4Ch
> card.  And the older 'megaraid' driver isn't built in FC3 gold (though
> I believe it is built in errata or development FC kernels, for exactly
> this reason).

I've got a FC3 driver disk for the "old" megaraid driver available at

http://www.iruntheinter.net/files/misc/megaraid-dd.zip

Unzip the contents to the root of a DOS formatted floppy.

The driver is included with the current FC3 errata kernels.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.