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Joe Holloway
Asked: 2009-05-02 12:37:10 +0800 CST

Are PERC 5/i RAID controller drivers available and easily installed on Ubuntu 9.04?

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We are looking to migrate a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with PERC 5/i RAID controller from an aging Windows 2000 Server installation to a modern Linux distro, probably Ubuntu 9.04.

I have come across some discussions regarding drivers for these RAID controllers indicating that some users have experienced frustration on older versions of Ubuntu (6.06).

My question is, has anyone installed a more recent version of Ubuntu on a PowerEdge with this RAID controller? Has the driver support/installation experience improved?

I don't mind having to follow these workarounds, but I don't really have a server that I can test on, so I'm trying to get a feel for what issues I might hit during my install so I can be as prepared as possible to resolve them quickly.

Thanks

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    I'm fairly certain that 9.04 will have the PERC 5/i compatible megaraid_sas driver. It's not a particularly new chipset by now.

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