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Re: [Xen-users] Basic Xen Question
That sounds like my IBM ServeRaid 7. I don't know much about the 8, do you know what the adaptec equivalent is? I think mine is the 2410SA, and that uses the aacraid module.
On 5/17/06,
Julius Spencer <julius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, unfortunately no. I think it is one of the few that isn't, from
Adaptec (my luck!). It's module name is: adpahci ; I haven't found this
anywhere except as Suse and RHEL rpms.
If you have heard of it though, do let me know. It's the Adaptec
HostRAID (IBM ServeRAID-8e) embedded in the motherboard.
From what I've read it's fakeraid, but at least it must deliver some
resources which would have been nice... Plus there's a sweet IBM
application which lets you manage and monitor the RAID (if it can find
the controller via the OS).
Greg Cockburn wrote:
> Are you sure the adaptec driver is not in the kernel. I have adaptec to
> be very good, in terms of opening up their drives. I have not come
> across one that wasn't already in the kernel.
>
> I have used SCSI and SATA Controllers and RAID variants of each without
> getting any drivers from adaptec.
>
> Greg.
>
> On 5/17/06, *Petersson, Mats* <
Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julius Spencer [mailto:julius@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:julius@xxxxxxxxx>]
> > Sent: 16 May 2006 21:23
> > To: Petersson, Mats
> > Cc: Sylvain Coutant; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:
xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Basic Xen Question
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply!
> >
> > Essentially I have a binary driver. There are only a few
> > OS's which it works under. Unfortunately IBM say that they
> > don't have much 'swing' in getting their suppliers to open
> > source the driver and Adaptec seem to have made it impossible
> > to make contact with them unless you have bought
> > from them directly.
> >
> > If I could patch the kernel which comes with the distro so it
> > was "xenified" ( :) ) then perhaps I could continue to use
> > the same driver.
> >
> > In this case, as it is a RAID type of device I'll have to opt
> > to use software RAID.
> >
> > Thank you again for the reply.
>
> Unfortunately in this type of situation, I'm not sure you'd get much
> help by using an older kernel - the driver may well not behave itself
> well enough to still work under Xen... At least, I think that is still a
> problem in Xenified Linux as it is under HVM - drivers in Xenified
> Linux
> are modified to "understand" Xen, and that's not going to work with
> binary drivers. However, I may be wrong. Someone with better
> understanding of this may be able to correct me (or say I'm right).
>
> --
> Mats
> >
> > Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Sylvain Coutant [mailto:sco@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:sco@xxxxxxxxxx
>]
> > >> Sent: 16 May 2006 12:02
> > >> To: Petersson, Mats; 'Julius Spencer';
> > xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Basic Xen Question
> > >>
> > >>>> Does anyone know if it is possible to patch an older kernel (eg.
> > >>>> 2.6.9) so it can be compiled to run as a Xen kernel (dom0)?
> > >>> Now, my question is: Why would you want that?
> > >> ie, just because one have some other patches to apply against the
> > >> kernel. It can sometimes be a true nightmare to set up a full
> > >> dom0+domU which includes every tool one need :-(
> > >
> > > Ok, fair enough. You'd just have to look at which patches are the
> > > biggest - and I think Xen is quite intrusive, so unless your other
> > > patches are also touching a lot of files in the kernel, I would
> > > suspect that porting the other patches would be easier...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mats
> > >> --
> > >> Sylvain
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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