Re: Adaptec aacraid

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Scott Long wrote:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=/Product/AAR-2810SA&filekey=asmbe_linux_v1.23.006.tgz

Same Storage Manager for the SATA and u320 cards?  They want me to fill
out a form to download that, and I'm afraid to try it tonight anyway.
I'll have someone put the CD in when there are sufficiently clued hands
available onsite.

This is from the 2810SA download page, but should work fine for the
2200S.  I'm not sure why the apps packages are not posted for linux
in the 2200S section.

I'll pass this along to the person who is responsible for the aacraid
RPMs.  I believe that the script is supposed to leave around a backup
of the old modules and initrds.  Did it not in this case?

I just took another look, and actually what it did was much worse.  It
looks at grub.conf and then rm's modules from /lib/modules for all kernels
mentioned in grub.conf and then installs its own (if it has one).  This
left me with:

# rpm -V kernel-smp-2.4.20-30.9
.M......   /dev/shm
missing    /lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/aacraid
missing    /lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.o

and no aacraid module anywhere in /lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9smp/.

Fortunately, it didn't blow away the 2.4.20-30.9smp initrd, so I was able
to extract the missing module from that, and put it back in place.  I know
the system would have booted just fine (since the module was in the
initrd)...but man, that's _really_annoying_ behavior for an RPM.  I
haven't bothered reading the whole script (25kb), but AFAICT, it rm'd the
modules and did not leave backup copies of them anywhere I've looked.

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