[Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Tony Pearson <tpearson at us.ibm.com> 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,



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