[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings:
I have a machine that I'm trying to install Debian onto. The hardware consists
of:
Tyan K8WE Motherboard
(2) Opteron 270 CPUs
4GB memory
3Ware 9500S with 4(RAID5) HDs
The driver for the 3Ware card (3w-9xxx) isn't loaded by the installer, so there
is no device /dev/sda to install onto. Using the second virtual console to
manually load the 3w-9xxx driver doesn't help. The driver loads correctly, but
it doesn't detect the disk array. This behavior occurs with the Beta 2 Etch
netboot image, and with the nightly build also. The Sarge image doesn't work
either, but it fails even earlier in the process.
I thought that perhaps some of the drivers that were getting loaded were interfering with the operation of the 3w-9xxx driver, so I tried the install in expert mode and didn't let the installer load all of those ide chipset drivers, but it didn't help. I tried a PXE network install so that I could load no IDE drivers, but no dice either.
I don't know if it is a problem with this particular kernel version or what. I
tried the Ubuntu 5.10 live CD which has 2.6.12, and it is able to load the
3w-9xxx driver and see /dev/sda properly.
After loading the driver manually, dmesg reports that version 2.26.02.004 is
loaded.
Can anyone offer any insight?
Thanks.
http://3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14860
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