On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Bill Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> I saw a mention of kmod-aacraid-1.1.7-3.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm over >> on Dag's http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/ that sounded >> really tempting to install, but I don't know if it would blow up my >> working original kernel or not. >> Until I am confident of a direction, I'd kind of like to keep this >> kernel working so I can continue to try this and that. > > To install RHEL, you'd need a driver disk for the Adaptec card. ELRepo (Phil > Schaffner) provides one for the the 6000 series here: > > http://www.elrepo.org/people/pschaff/dud/ > > as DUP_el6_i686_20111230.iso.gz (32-bit) and DUP_el6_x86_64_20111230.iso.gz > (64-bit). More details can be found > here: > > http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=206 > > Will be great if you can test it. > > Akemi > -------------------------------------------------- > I downloaded this iso.gz and found it had the kmod-aacraid-1.1.7-1. rpm, but > interestingly it had a different number of bytes than the same named rpm > from elrepo.org. There is no clear indication, but I currently presume that > the 7-3 rpm is newer thanthe 7-1 one and hopefully this makes is a better > choice. > Bill
I'm sure Phil (ELRepo) will update the driver disk file with the latest aacraid driver. I think the file name should contain the driver version rather than (or in addition to) the date. :) Akemi _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
