I have a coupla PE2850 w/ the Perc4e/DI SCSI Raid Controllers and I'm having a difficult time installing RHEL 3 release 2 64bit simply because the raid controller driver isn't correct.

I have a PE1850 w/ perc4e that I haven't recieved yet, and I'm pretty sure it'll have the same problem.

I've talked to support and they're trying to find/create the right driver now. the megaraid2 perc v2.10.7 listed on the driver download page isn't the correct driver/doesn't work.

Hang in there, i'm sure they'll get it corrected soon.

glad to see I'm not the only one... I'm having the same problem with the same hardware :-( 

I'm assuming that things ought to work swimmingly if I try to install an earlier release of RHEL3 ?  (not that that makes me too happy).

Hope we can get an updated/corrected driver soon. 

http://www.lsilogic.com/downloads/license.do?id=2000&did=7770&pid=2407

This link will get you the 2.10.8-2 driver from LSI which works!

try it out...

worked for me on my 2850's with RHEL-AS-3.2-EM64T

.... haven't recieved my 1850 yet.

Hi,

I checked out the website, and found the indicated drivers. But how should I load this driver if there isn't an OS installed on my PE 1850, and it doesn't have a floppy drive installed?

I do not have RHEL, I'm trying to install Fedora Core 2, or if necessary I might install RH9.

Anyone has a good suggestion on how to get the driver loaded?

just to update... I tried again with the latest release of White Box Enterprise Linux (which is essentially identical to RHEL 3.2... worked just fine with the drivers included with the WBEL install.  Oddly enough, my "mistake" earlier was in trying to load either the DELL-supplied or LSI-downloaded drivers.  I never did get things to work out using any of those.  But again, the stock White Box Enterprise Linux install recognized everything perfectly and my system is up and running.

Before you try something like RH9, you might want to take a look at WBEL (www.whiteboxlinux.org)

As for installing with no floppy if you *do* need a driver... how about one of those USB key drives?   Or put the extra drivers on a CD... or buy a floppy drive for $20 or so and pop it in just for the install.

heres the suse 9.1 amd64/em64t driver. Not verified by me though. see readme in there.
http://www.lsilogic.com/files/support/rsa/Linux_2.20.2-1.zip