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1220SA adp3132 SATA raid controller driver for ubuntu

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
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Jason Emanuel wrote:-
I’m trying to get a 1220SA sata raid controller card working under Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. I have a copy of the adp3132.rhel4.x86_64.rpm but I cannot seem to get it to install. Can someone point me in the right direction? I’ve gone so far as to unzip the rpm and I’m poking around through […]

arconf with HostRAID ESB2 controller

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
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Kavan Wrote:-
I installed Adaptec Storage Manager Ver 5.20 in a RHEL5 machine. A RAID 10 array is configured and attached to a HostRAID ESB2 controller.
I can see the controller and the array using the GUI. But arcconf doesn’t see controller. For example, ‘./arcconf GETSTATUS 0′ results in ‘Controllers found: 0. Invalid controller number.’.
Kavan,
Since you […]

Updating controller BIOS / firmware from ASM on Linux systems

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
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How do I update the BIOS of my Adaptec 3405 from Adaptec Storage Manager on Ubuntu server? I don’t want to have to reboot to DOS?

What does this generally mean when the Adaptec AAC BIOS says kernel stopped running?

Monday, October 8th, 2007
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Brendan asks: What does this generally mean when the Adaptec AAC BIOS says this?Booting the controller Kernel…controller started
error: controller kernel stopped running
<press any key to continue…>
Controller Adaptec 4800SAS…
Controller Kernel panic
unknown firmware error error code:EF
<press any key to continue…>
….
Controller not started
Bios not installed
PXE-E61 mediq test failure,check cable
OS not found..TIA - you’re always a great help.
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