Re: Xserve G5 disks
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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