This was covered recently on the kernel mailing list I believe. If this is
the AMI MegaRaid controller you might want to check Alan Cox diary at
http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ about the problems with this. I believe that
that firmware version also comes into play here.
Ray Knight
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> From: ">owner-ale@ale.org [mailto:">owner-ale@ale.org]On Behalf Of Michael
> Phillips
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 3:56 PM
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> Subject: [ale] Dell PowerEdge 2450 and Linux
>
>
> We recently (today) received a spanking new Dell PowerEdge 2450
> with 4ea 10K SCSI drives, 512MB RAM....
>
> During installation of Linux on the box, the scsi backplane card
> keeps timing out. A call to Dell Support brings the claim that
> there is a need for a special kernel version of RH.....
>
> Can anyone on the list verify this? Dell wants $125.00 for a copy
> of RedHat and quite frankly, I find it hard to believe that the
> "fix" is not out here somewhere.
>
> Any assistance greatly appreciated!
>
> Mike
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