There is patch available for RH 6.1 for Dell PERC2/SC RAID card for Dell PowerEdge servers. But it does not compile per Dell instructions, raher it returns undefined symbols. The patch was written for kerel 2.2.10. RH 6.1 does install OK on PwerEdge 2400 with PERC2/SC but causes system to hang frequently. Therefore server becomes practically unusable. For now I have removed RH 6.1 and installed Solaris7, till RH or Dell comes up with a fix. Suhaib
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dual-processor Dell PowerEdge 2400 servers with RedHat Linux 6.1. I encountered several bugs in Red Hat 6.1 on dual processor servers with PERC2/SC RAID card. The Red Hat 6.1 was very unstable and caused frequent system hangs and strange behaviors. Compiling and installing Linux Kernel 2.2.9 with RAIDS support and scan ALL LUNS for SCSI options, fixed the problems. I assume Kernel 2.2.12, which comes with Red Hat 6.1 has SCSI and maybe memory related bugs. On another PC, which was HP Pavilion with 733 MHz CPU, Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI, and the newest Intel mother bord, I had Red Hat 6.1 doing some strange things, causing often hangs of the system. On that PC also compiling and installing Kernel 2.2.9 seems to have taken care of the problems, except xfree86 3.3.5 could not support nvidia GeForce video card. I had to compile XFree86 3.9.17c and install it. Suhaib Siddiqi
6.1 had the 'honest its better' latest and greatest perc2 driver at the time. That wasnt always better...