[ale] Update on my attempts with a PC Server 704.

[John Cole]

Howdy all!

Ok, I have now tried Redhat, Mandrake, Gentoo, and Slackware.  Redhat 7.3
likes my system (SMP + SCSI HW Raid) but kernel panics on boot.  Mandrake
doesn't even see my SCSI drives so it can't progress.  Gentoo like my system
only in Single-Processor mode and it sees my SCSI Raid adapter but no drives
(nothing under /dev/sd*).  Slackware boots to setup (can't tell if it likes
SMP), sees my SCSI Raid adapter, but no drives under /dev/sd*).

Do the IBM ServeRAID need drivers to run in Linux?

Does anyone have any other ideas or should I just give up on this hardware
to install Linux onto?

Thanks,
John Cole, TICSA

Network Administrator / Security
Lockheed Georgia Employees' Federal Credit Union
430 Commerce Park Drive
Marietta, GA 30060
(770) 424-0060
(800) 541-8921
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