Alpha, additional notes and a question...

Robert Meyer meyer_rm at yahoo.com
Wed May 22 14:07:10 EDT 2002


Well, most newer kernels in distributions don't need to be recompiled to
support a 'standard' or well known device.  A lot of the documentation
for devices talk about building kernels, assuming that support isn't already
there.  I suspect that if you can get an install started, the RAID card
will be recognized correctly.  I just did an install of RedHat 7.2 on a brand
new Compaq server with an integral RAID and it installed straight up, without
any special handling, other than the Compaq utilities for initializing the
array and installing Compaq Diagnostics.

Probably should have the same situation with an Alpha processor
distribution from one of the main vendors.

Cheers!

Bob
--- Joseph Lukasiewicz <jlukasiewicz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been poking around and managed to scare up some resources that I think
> could assist me (us) in getting the Alpha 2100 up and running.
> 
> It seems the controller card for the Raid is a MYLEX DAC960...  I have some
> info on it including what I believe to be drivers and possible
> "instructions"...
> 
> Rather than just plop everything in the forum, I was wondering how to
> proceed?  I think the kernel will need to be rebuilt, or the drivers
> recompiled, or the "recover" kernal made to some how recognize the drivers...
> 
> As you can tell, were starting to get a little beyond my level on this...Any
> ideas?
> 
> Joe Lukasiewicz
> 
> 
> 
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