On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Tony Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, > I'll try the "lspci" commands to see what it says. > > What "dmesg" should I look for? -- when I do: dmesg | grep "sd"[ab] I get > that it finds both /sda and /sdb individually, so not detecting the RAID > mode.
Probably *just* before finding sda, it will talk about the SATA/PATA/IDE driver and what it thinks about the hardware. On my laptop, it says... [ 16.215542] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[B] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 [ 16.215719] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 [ 16.215740] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.1 disabled [ 16.220544] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.12 [ 16.220564] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[B] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 [ 16.220733] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 [ 16.220832] scsi0 : ata_piix [ 16.220969] scsi1 : ata_piix [ 16.221766] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x1810 irq 14 [ 16.221837] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x1818 irq 15 [ 16.386127] ata1.00: ATA-6: TOSHIBA MK8009GAH, BS011A, max UDMA/100 [ 16.386203] ata1.00: 156301488 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 [ 16.394008] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 16.394135] ata2: port disabled. ignoring. [ 16.394334] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA TOSHIBA MK8009GA BS01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 16.495399] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods [ 16.495605] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB) [ 16.495694] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > The "autoinstall' fails either because of the Radeon X1200 or the > "clearpart" command on Line 23. I've burned a copy of XS-160-noauto if you > want me to try that. I'm sure it's failing because of the clearpart command. > I've been scanning the Fedora forums for "dmraid" support, and it doesn't > look like it has support for this SB600 SATA RAID controller. Sounds the likely cause > Uruguay = EduBlog/Ceibal/Greg Smith. I am building the server to Greg's > request, so whatever he is now calling this project that is what it is. Edublog != Ceibal. If this was Ceibal, I suspect you'd be installing Debian ;-) cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel