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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m using the brand new Adaptec RAID 6805 controller with Centos 5.6. Unfortunately the default aacraid driver in the centos kernel doesn’t support the 6805 controller. Currently I manually compiled the aacraid driver
using the source supplied by Adaptec </span><a href="http://download.adaptec.com/raid/aac/linux/aacraid-linux-src-1.1.7-28000.tgz"><span lang="EN-US">http://download.adaptec.com/raid/aac/linux/aacraid-linux-src-1.1.7-28000.tgz</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
and rpmbuild<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But after each kernel update the driver has to be recompiled and added to the initrd-xxx image also when I use the dkms driver.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Could a kmod-aacraid package be added to the elrepo? I have no experience with building a kmod package. But I would be happy to test it.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maurits van de Lande<o:p></o:p></p>
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