Greetings, I've got a Supermicro SuperServer 7045B-T. I'm trying to install Etch and I want to use RAID 5.
My problem is that Debian in particular and Linux in general doesn't seem to recognize the RAID controller on this box. When going through the install the partitioner sees the 3 physical drives rather than one RAID volume. I repeat the same results when I set up either a RAID 0 or RAID 1 array; and with any Linux distro I've tried: OpenSUSE, SLES, Fedora, Debian Etch both i386 and AMD64. I am able to go ahead and install, but then GRUB freaks out at stage 1.5 with an error indicating it can't find the drives. If I disable the SATA RAID in the BIOS, then installation goes normally, GRUB does it's job, and I get a full boot with a loaded, working system. Just no RAID. In the BIOS I' able to select either an Intel or Adaptec code base, but neither one of them will do the trick. I am able to install Windows 2003 Server on it, just as a test, and only after adding the appropriate driver during the install. Windows sees the one RAID volume and everything works alright after that. Specifics: 3 74.5GB SATA drives Serial ATA AHCI BIOS version iSirc 1.08.sm0 Intel Matrix Storage Manager Rom v5.6.2.1002 ESB2 Is there support for this in Debian, and if so what do I need to do to get it installed? Should I be using Sarge instead of Etch? If I need to provide more information I'll gladly do so. Thanks! Rob Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
