Re: Dell 4200 w/perc3 raid
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Bryan Hall wrote: Upon initial setup, Debian distro doesn't appear to recognize the perc3 raid controller. No problem.. drivers not installed, likely. Unfortunately, upon attempting to utilize the 'preload drivers' function in the setup, it returns an error message stating 'Cannot mount floppy' critical error, and places me at the 'configure network' screen under the assumption that it's a diskless station I'm on. Can anyone offer me any suggestions as to why this is, and how I might be able to get around this? Additionally, I'd be indebted to anyone who could point me in the right direction to obtain drivers for said perc3 controller. Muchly appreciated, and my thanks for the patience. I'm a 'dozer who's seen the light, and making the big leap into the (for me, that is) great unknown that is Debian Linux. Hi, I have a Dell with a percraid controller and yes, debian don't support this type of controller... the driver was Dell's propietary without releasing the source code, and give to the linux community pre-compiled kernels that supports all the platforms. A few month ago Dell releases the driver under GPL and it will be introduced into the 2.4.x brach of the kernel when the stability increase... I have a RedHat :-( into the machine, but I have installed the dpkg and apt software to allow install packages from debian ;-) I recomend an aproach like this to configure and run the machine... Respectfully, Bryan H. Hall (reply to this address if at all possible.. thanks!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 4200 w/perc3 raid
Bryan, See the following for PERC/3 info. The first one has Debian disk images and kernel patches that will work great to install the PERC/3. I've never tried it on a 4200, but I have installed on an 2450. http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html http://domsch.com/linux/ --Rich Josep Llauradó Selvas wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Bryan Hall wrote: Upon initial setup, Debian distro doesn't appear to recognize the perc3 raid controller. No problem.. drivers not installed, likely. Unfortunately, upon attempting to utilize the 'preload drivers' function in the setup, it returns an error message stating 'Cannot mount floppy' critical error, and places me at the 'configure network' screen under the assumption that it's a diskless station I'm on. -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Dell 4200 w/perc3 raid
Upon initial setup, Debian distro doesn't appear to recognize the perc3 raid controller. No problem.. drivers not installed, likely. Unfortunately, upon attempting to utilize the 'preload drivers' function in the setup, it returns an error message stating 'Cannot mount floppy' critical error, and places me at the 'configure network' screen under the assumption that it's a diskless station I'm on. Can anyone offer me any suggestions as to why this is, and how I might be able to get around this? Additionally, I'd be indebted to anyone who could point me in the right direction to obtain drivers for said perc3 controller. Muchly appreciated, and my thanks for the patience. I'm a 'dozer who's seen the light, and making the big leap into the (for me, that is) great unknown that is Debian Linux. Respectfully, Bryan H. Hall (reply to this address if at all possible.. thanks!)
