Hi,

Am 11.05.2011 08:32, schrieb Maciej Jan Broniarz:
>
> Wiadomość napisana przez John R Pierce w dniu 2011-05-11, o godz. 01:51:
>
>> On 05/10/11 3:46 PM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:
>>> I am sure it doesn't. I have booted 5.5 and 5.6 in linux dd mode. Then I 
>>> have loaded the drivers from: aacraid-driverdisk-CentOS.iso . Still, the 
>>> installer sees no hard disk. I have read somewhere, that the adaptec driver 
>>> to that controller works only with Centos 5.4, but i need a newer version 
>>> of Centos. Maybe using drivers from RHEL 5 / 6 would be a better solution 
>>> here?
>>
>> binary drivers are *very* kernel version specific.
>>
>> you could install centos 5.4 with those drivers, then yum update
>> everything *but* the kernel
>
> Ok, I'll give it a try. Thanks.

You could also ask on the elrepo mailinglist.
There was a request not too long ago.

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2011-April/000637.html

So maybe you can install centos 5.4, then install their newer aacraid 
driver and then you can update the kernel as well...

Rainer
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