I have just spent nearly 5 straight hours trying to get a Netraid 1M card to work. I understand support was dropped. I don't really understand why seeing as older and more worthless hardware continues to work. It's not like a Ultra 160 SCSI RAID 5 array isn't still a decent thing to have. But that's getting a bit off topic.
Has anybody actually gotten the legacy megaraid drivers to work with SME? I have read pretty much all the threads out there regarding CentOS and RH regarding these. The only procedure I haven't done is the one procedure that requires a completely separate RH box to compile the drivers.
I used the driver in post #22 here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=138590 but I seem to be having the same problem as the gentleman in post #51. The driver from the disk shows up in the list to select but once selected, it never loads. The same happens when attempting to load the drivers directly from HP. I have also started the install with noprobe as well as dd and a combination of the two with each driver. I understand the server is 8 years old but it seems this has been an issue since 2004 and perhaps even earlier. I wouldn't consider a 4 year old server obsolete.
The frustrating thing is it is currently running ClarkConnect 4.2 which I believe is based on the same RHEL or CentOS that SME is yet the card worked flawlessly with no intervention during install. I just want SME on it because I like SME better. I almost wonder if there's a way to use the fact that it's working on CC to get it working on SME.
I don't pretend to know alot about linux but I can usually figure things out. Still, I would appreciate any suggestions to get this to work.
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