Title: SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750
Thanks for the reply,
 
                               Your insight are really appreciated. So I have downloaded parted 1.6.22, I removed the parted patch from the patch directory and ran a build. Now, it doesn't crash anymore but it reports that /dev/sda does not exist ... so I guess that I was wrong when I say that it did see my SATA drive proberly, thats too bad. Weird though, when I run the make I can see that it is installing the driver for the ATA_PIIX.
 
So here is how I applied the libata patch (Let me know if you see anything wrong there)
 
--> For libata
 
1. copied the patch in the patch folder
2. modified the linux.i386.config so that is build the ATA_PIIX driver in the kernel
3. make clean
4. make install_binaries
 
--> For parted
 
1. copied the parted-1.6.22 source in the /src folder
2. modified the /make.d/parted.rul file to point to the right version
3. make install_binaries
 
After that I generated an new .iso burnt it and here is where I end up, it still does not see my sata drive.
 
I tried to run you kernel but it fails with the following error
 
chown: /lib/modules  : Directory does not exist or something like that
 
Any idea ?
 
Also, do I need to make a new autoinstall CD every time I recompile the kernel or does it download the new kerner image from the server ?
 
Thanks for your help !! Its getting a bit discouraging but its interesting :)
 
Simon
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750

You can try to re-compile the binaries but with a newer version of parted (1.6.17 seems to work).  You need to download the tarball and put it in the src directory and also modify make.d/parted.rul to reflect the updated version.  Re-compile and it should work.
 
Alternatively, you can try to use my kernel which I have already done the above (but there is a possibility my kernel does not work with your hardware though...)
 
http://www.bcgsc.ca/downloads/oscar/kernel/kernel-2.4.25-2.tar.gz
 
Cheers,
 
Bernard


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Lacroix
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:20
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Sisuite-users] SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750

Hi all,

         I know that there was a fair bit of discussion on this but I am not a linux expert and I would need a bit more precision. So was anybody able to run systemimager on a poweredge 750

server using SI 3.2.3 (Intel SATA chipset) ? I rebuilt the kernel using libata kernel patch (I did make install_binaries) and I generated an .iso after that. Booting off that .iso, it seems to see my sata drive and puts it under /dev/sda1 but the master script seems to hang when it runs parted.

Has anyone encountered anything similar ?

Thanks in advance !

Simon

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