LP 2000r : RedHat 7.1 SYM53C1010-33 driver ?

[Juin]

Hello

How Redhat 7.1 recognise a drive on a 53C1010-33 SCSI card ? Where can i find the good driver ?

LSI tells that the driver 53C8xx is working for 53C1010 and 53C1010-66. But when I try to install the latest release of the 53C8xx driver from LSI, it doesn't work !
LSI answered that 53C1010 is an OEM and they don't support OEM drivers. So HP is the one who should develop the driver.
How long will we wait to get a linux SCSI driver for LP 2000r ?

Thanks very much.

Laurent

[Albert P Tobey]

I would suggest forgetting about the LSI distributed drivers. I just got one of these machines (LP2000) and the Linux kernel's sym53c8xx works just fine. This driver is well tested and supported by the Linux community, so it's probably the best bet.

RH 7.1 should have detected this right away and installed the appropriate driver. My systems use the Netraid card from HP (which uses the Linux megaraid.o driver) for the hardware RAID mirroring, but the onboard Symbios works great for tape drives and other devices of that kind.

So, go out and get linux-2.4.14, configure it with the SymBIOS card:
make menuconfig ->
SCSI support ->
<*> SCSI Support
<*> SCSI disk support
[*] Verbose SCSI error reporting
SCSI low-level drivers ->
<*> SYM53C8XX SCSI support

You may want to select:
[*] assume boards are SYMBIOS compatible
if your controller isn't recognized right away.

Best of luck!