RE: [Sisuite-users] SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750

Thu, 19 May 2005 15:36:45 -0700

Title: SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750
Hi Bernard,
 
              Ok so I tried your kernel and it seems to see my SATA drive !!!! Thanks. Wish I knew what I did wrong when I compiled mine ... I did change the patch filename to match the naming convention (linux.i386.93libata.patch) it also prompt me to install the promise and via modules that I did not specify in the config file. There is still one problem, the master script seems to fail
when it performs the following command :
 
mke2fs -j automount(pid2557) || shellout
 
I am not sure of what this command does to be honnest (bare with me I am not a linux expert)
 
So far thats great improvement ! So do I need to regenerate the scripts with because of the new kernel ?
 
Thanks again
 
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750

Hi Simon:
 
You need to rename the patch filename so that it matches the naming scheme - otherwise it won't be applied.
 
Can your nodes network boot?  You need to copy both the kernel and initrd.img file (from my tarball) to the appropriate location so that the node can see and pull the files down (you may or may not need to copy boel_binaries.tar.gz too).
 
Cheers,
 
Bernard

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Lacroix
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 13:36
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] 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...)
 
 
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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