Re: NOOOOOoooo! The drivers.. I forgot about the drivers!

From: The Black Wibble (anthony.neville_at_paradise.org.nz)
Date: 11/08/03


Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 13:28:20 +1300

Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:
> In article <_YDqb.5404$ws.518223@news02.tsnz.net>, The Black Wibble wrote:
>
>>After over two hours downloading the fedora ISOs, and finshing inches
>>away from my download cap for the month, it pops into my brain that
>>Promise have no SATA drivers for fedora. I can't even begin to install
>>the bloody thing on my RAID array. Fark!!!
>
> Are you sure they are not included in Fedora ?

Positive. But I downloaded the redhat 9.0 drivers from Promise and
source code from somewhere else, compiled new driver modules for the
kernel configurations Fedora uses, replaced the modules.cgz on the
drivers disk, and presto, a driver disk for fedora. Now I have fedora
installed on my SATA raid array.

Tony.



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