I am currently trying to configure the same controler for a Debian installation. I
patched a 2.2.13 kernel source with the patches for the DPT-controler (patches were for
kernel 2.2.5, but I performed them manually).
I first tried to compile the driver in the kernel, but I got strange timeouts when
using
this kernel (for minutes, I couldn't access the drive).
Then I tried to insert it as a module. Kernel compiled well, but I got compilation
errors when doing a "make module".
Then I just "insmod -f "-ed the module I got from the RedHat 6.0 disks and that worked.
Tomorrow, I get on with the tests.
Brecht
Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > I am trying to get the DPT PM3754U2 Raid controller to work in an X86 dual PIII500
> > system
> > The only Linux I have seen support for is Red Hat. Has anyone out there possibly
> > hacked the source
> > from DPT to create a boot disk that will work with Slackware?
>
> If you can create custom boot disks for Slack, then this should be
> trivial as the drivers for the DPT cards are open source. You can grab
> the patch from their site, and I think that Alan Cox is working on those
> drivers in the 2.3.x kernel series.
