Dell recommends applying this update during your next scheduled update cycle. The update contains feature enhancements or changes that will help keep your system software current and compatible with other system modules (firmware, BIOS, drivers and software).
Important Information
This software code release requires all V2.8 components; firmware, device driver and management utilities. Using some components from previous releases may cause some unknown errors.
-Wait for all commands to controller to complete in Adapter reset error handler. -Corrected system hang when using CLI to create arrays under stress. -Suppressed erroneous SCSI SRB Error message. -Fixed RH8.0, RH9, AS2.1 Stress/CLI Crash. -Added precompiled binaries for AS3.0 BETA -Fixed Kernel Panic on RH9 -Added precompiled binaries for the 2.4.20-9 and 2.4.20-9smp kernels.
Installation Instructions
Custom Instructions for aacraid-1.1.4-2302-RHEL3-A01.tar.gz:
The following instructions will walk you through an installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 driver for Dell PERC 2, PERC 2/Si, PERC 3/Si, and PERC 3/Di controllers.
1. Download the driver package to your Linux system
2. Extract this package
tar -xvzf aacraid-1.1.4-2302-RHEL3-A01.tar.gz
3. Install dkms and aacraid RPMs by issuing:
rpm –ivh dkms-1.00-1.noarch.rpm
rpm –ivh aacraid-1.1.4-2302dkms.noarch.rpm
4. Reboot your system to load this newly installed driver.
