Lennart Sorensen wrote:
I should have researched a bit more, but I figured since SATA has been out for a while now, it would work without much trouble.On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:31:39PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote:Having no luck installing sarge on our new machine. Tyan K8WE w/2x Opteron 244s LSI21320RB SCSI Controller Plextor PX-716SA (SATA)So far from what I have read, ATAPI support on SATA is still not completed, although it is certainly under a lot of development. I considered getting the PX-716SA but decided to get the PX-716A instead, since I knew it would work and it had a mail in rebate making it quite a bit cheaper than the SATA version. I am very happy I didn't get the SATA version so far given how much trouble getting SATA ATAPI to work appreas to be.
I'll know one of these days. I thought I saw a comment saying it did while googling yesterday, but maybe not...debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso The three items I'm having trouble with:1. Installing from the Plextor drive. I'm reading that the newest kernel will work, so my work around plan is to use an IDE drive and then upgrade the kernel. I think this will work if I can get past the next two.I didn't think even 2.6.11 supported full ATAPI over SATA but maybe I am wrong. I haven't tried it yet.
If that is the driver included with sarge, I can say that it doesn't work with the chips on the K8WE board. What do you think of my idea to install with an older card and then upgrade to get the on-board stuff going?2. The integrated network processors don't seem to be supported. From the MB manual: Two IEEE Nvidia MAC 1000/100/10 Ethernet (First from PRO 2200, Second from PRO 2050). My proposed work around plan is to install an older network card for the installation and then upgrade drivers.I thought the forcedeth driver supported all the nforce network chips, but I have only tried it myself on 100Mbit ports on nforce 2 and 3.
I have a LSI21320RB controller with Fujitsu MAS and MAT drives hung on it. Any suggestions on boot parameters?3. I can't partition my drives. I keep getting an error that says something like "no partionable drives installed." I'm stuck on this one. I've tried different boot parameters, but haven't had any success.What kind of HD and connected to which controller?
I have booted the system with Knoppix and I can configure the network and I can see the hard drives. Since the work day is about over, I thought I would try posting here for suggestions before trying again tomorrow.Knoppix may have a newer kernel than sarge with support for more devices. Not unusual really. A number of machines would have worked with sarge if it had used 2.6.10 rather than 2.6.8 which was being considered, but 2.6.10 had other bugs that 2.6.8 didn't have that would make it break on another set of machines, so 2.6.8 was kept as the kernel for sarge.
Thanks for you comments. Gary