Re: Xserve G5 disks

[John Koskie <jkoskie@maine.edu>]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work.   Anyways, for now I am
successul net-booting with the disks removed, so solving the disk issue
is not pressing.

To answer your question, the Xserve is rather loud.  It seems like there
is some minimal fan control, but much less than when running under OSX.

cheers,
John

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 08:06 -0600, vinai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I encountered a similar problem when I was trying to install Debian on a
> SATA drive in my 8500.  I wanted to partition the disk for MacOS classic
> and Debian, but Apple's Disk utility would not recognize the drive.  I
> ended up using my old debian installer to partition the disk, and used
> cp -ax to do a direct copy of my old system, partition by partition, to
> the new disk.
> 
> In your case, you'd probably have to do the opposite - have Apple's disk
> utility partition the disk as you wish, and use your current Debian disk
> to format and copy over your partitions.  You will probably have to edit
> /etc/fstab and /etc/yaboot.conf on the system you copied over to reflect
> the new disk layout, but it should be a quick and dirty way to get you
> up and running on your Xserve.
> 
> cheers
> vinai
> 
> P.S. How noisy is your Xserve in light to moderate usage ?
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, John Koskie wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know where to get a driver for the Hitachi SATA drives that
> > come with the Xserve G5.
> >
> > I successfully installed Sarge on one of the machines by placing a
> > Maxotr SATA drive in a G5 tower, installing onto that drive, compiling
> > the latest 2.6.8 kernel, then placing the Maxtor disk into the
> > Xserve....it works fine.
> >
> > However, when I try the same with the Hitachi  hard drive that comes wit
> > hthe Xserve the disk cannot be accessed. Discover cannot correctly
> > identify it.  Th disk is labeled: Hitachi  Deskstar HDS722580VLSA80 SATA
> > and "Apple HDD Firmware".
> >
> > I haven't filed a bug report yet since it seems I just don't know the
> > right driver.
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> > John
> 
> 
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