LSI 3801 JBOD card and Ubuntu 12.04 / 64 bit

[Alan McKay]

Hey folks,

I've got a 12.04 install and need to connect a couple of old Sun J4400
arrays.   The only card Sun will guarantee works with that is an LSI
3801 (ES).  Well, there were 3 options - 2 LSI and an Adaptec.
That's the one I was able to get since they are older.

But I go to the LSI website and they only have drivers for SLES and
RHEL4,5 and 6.  There are a crapload of RPMs in the tarball and I"m
not sure how to sort that out to run alien on them.

I did seem to sort it down to
kmod-lsi-mptbase-4.28.00.00_rhel6.1-1.x86_64.rpm which alien converted
to kmod-mptbase_4.28.00.00rhel6.1-2_amd64.deb

But honestly I'm out of my league here and am just poking in the dark.

Anyone know what I can do here?

I don't have the card in the machine yet - so maybe I'll get lucky and
it will just work.   What are the chances of that?

My other option if I can't get this going is to wipe the box and
install Scientific 6.1 and use the RHEL drivers.  But who wants to run
RHEL when you can run Ubuntu? :-)

thanks,
-Alan

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