Re: Install problem on Supermicro X6DHT-G system

[Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri@swoodbridge.com>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>
> > Debian Installers. My BIOS reports
> >
> > IDE Channel 0 Master 250GB SATA1
> > IDE Channel 1 Slave  CD-ROM
>
>
> That is probably the whole problem.  The SATA should NOT be treated as
> an ide device unless you are trying to install something obsolete like
> windows XP which doesn't do SATA natively.
>
> IDE channel 0 should have no devices if nothing is connected to the
> first IDE port.  Anything else means the bios is misconfigured or
> "broken" (Dell's are often "broken").

Argh! I thought SuperMicro would be smarter than that!

I guess it might be worthwhile trying to reverse the drives so the CDROM 
is on channel 0

The other think I might be able to try is to move the SATA boot disk to 
the Marvel onboard raid controller just as a single disk.

I also have 3ware 9550 controller that I think I have to build a kernel 
driver to get it working.

Do you have any thoughts on working around this problem?

-Steve