[ale] Mylex Raid controller

[Matt Shade]

Hi Steve,
I have the worst dialup line from home since I moved to Kennesaw, so
downloading the iso's are out of the question.
Here's what a modprobe shows:

tyrone:/ # modprobe DAC960
/lib/modules/2.2.16/block/DAC960.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.2.16/block/DAC960.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.16/block/DAC960.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.16/block/DAC960.o: insmod DAC960 failed


I want to try creating a new kernel, but haven't had too much luck with that
just yet. Somehow LILO is hosed...I just don't get to spend enough time on
this. I'll see what I can do with what I have, then maybe try downloading.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Matt Shade" <mshade at threekay.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 15:49
Subject: Re: [ale] Mylex Raid controller


> Well, here in my 2.4.20-ac4 kernel I have a DAC960.o module for talking
> to Mylex RAID controllers. I would bet that SuSE and RedHat have similar
> modules too, but if this module would be available at install time I don't
> know (kind of doubt it). If you have a fast connection you could download
> the VA Linux 7.1.1 iso's from:
>
>
ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/software/RH-VALE/beta/7.1.1/os/iso/va-redhat-os-7.
1.1-cd1.iso
>
ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/software/RH-VALE/beta/7.1.1/os/iso/va-redhat-os-7.
1.1-cd2.iso
>
ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/software/RH-VALE/beta/7.1.1/extras/iso/va-redhat-e
xtras-7.1.1.iso
>
> The software engineers who formerly worked at VA spent a lot of time
improving
> RedHat-7.1 to produce this beta of their 7.1.1   One of the main things
they did
> was make sure you could install onto and reliably run on Mylex RAID
controllers
> since much of their hardware shipped with Mylex controllers by default. I
would
> after I got it installed however upgrade it to Alan's latest 2.4.10-ac4
kernel
> as I know there is at least one or more unresolved problem with the VA
2.4.5-beta4va3.15
> kernel that was never fixed prior to cutting this beta.
>
> One other benifit is that the VA-7.1.1 release also included all of the
errata/updates
> plus solved problems that were found & reported within VA's QA department
as of the time
> of release. That means you won't have to download all the extra
errata/updates that
> RedHat has released since 7.1 came out. Just the ones since this beta was
released
> by VA.
> --
> Steven A. DuChene      linux-clusters at mindspring.com
>                       sduchene at mindspring.com
>
>         http://www.mindspring.com/~sduchene/