Linux & my LSI MegaRaid 300x8 Sata raid card...how?

[Mellman]

How do i get this to work in gentoo? If i load up the live CD it works like a champ and I can access it as sda, i see no lsi logic modules to load in the kernel...the device obviously works since I can access it with the live cd.

 

[xcript]

I see three megaraid related drivers in my kernel config under Device Drivers -> SCSI device support -> SCSI low-level drivers (megaraid_newgen, megaraid_legacy, megaraid_sas).

Obviously you'll need to build them if you haven't done so already. Not sure which one is the right one for you, but I'd guess it's the newgen one.

 

[Nothinman]

And this is why trying to optimize your system by building a custom kernel with only support for the hardware you currently have is pointless. =)

 

[Mellman]

Originally posted by: xcript
I see three megaraid related drivers in my kernel config under Device Drivers -> SCSI device support -> SCSI low-level drivers (megaraid_newgen, megaraid_legacy, megaraid_sas).

Obviously you'll need to build them if you haven't done so already. Not sure which one is the right one for you, but I'd guess it's the newgen one.

Guess i was thinking SATA...would not be in scsi - i'll give it a try.

 

[Mellman]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
And this is why trying to optimize your system by building a custom kernel with only support for the hardware you currently have is pointless. =)

so the fact that everything else in my system works....is meaningless?

 

[Nothinman]

so the fact that everything else in my system works....is meaningless?

Not meaningless, but if you had just built everything as a module from the beginning you wouldn't have had this problem.