MPT Fusion modules and ISO

Hendrik Visage hvisage at envisage.co.za
Sun Apr 13 10:18:26 GMT 2003


On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:13:51PM -0500, Terry Chan wrote:
> Hendrik,
> 
> Okay, I now know where and what you are refering to when you say Fusion modules.
> I really doubt those EVER were included in the Lunar ISO, at least since I've
> been making them.  Perhaps one of Kongar's old iso's may have had those drivers
> but I've never included or even used that menu option before.
> 
> As I've said before the Initrd is very full.  I doubt any more kernel scsi drivers

The initrd can always be increased.

> will be added.  If there is room and the next time we get ready to make another
> Lunar ISO, I'll try and see if the Fusion stuff fits or not.

Just add then to the ISO in /lib/modules, and then you can keep the initrd 
smaller.

> 
> Terry Chan
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:20:38PM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> > 
> > But they miss the drivers for the IBM x235 with the LSI 1030 MPT :(
> > 
> > The Fusion MPT stuff is not included, and they aren't under the SCSI Support,
> > but under Fusion MPT device support ie.
> > 
> >   x x         SCSI support  --->                                          x x
> >   x x         Fusion MPT device support  --->                             x x
> > 
> >   Choose this one and not the SCSI support,
> >   it should give you this menu:
> >   x x            <M> Fusion MPT (base + ScsiHost) drivers                 x x
> >   x x            <M>   Enhanced SCSI error reporting                      x x
> >   x x            <M>   Fusion MPT misc device (ioctl) driver              x x
> >   x x            <M>   Fusion MPT LAN driver                              x x
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > HEndrik
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