[WBEL-users] WBEL on a Dell Poweredge 4400

[Richard Humphrey]

"This firmware release creates a bootable firmware update diskette for Dell
PERC 2/DC controller."

I already updated the firware for the controller, this is not a driver..


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:18:54 -0800, Cameron Showalter
<cameron@gwschool.com> wrote:
>  I'm looking at support.dell.com and I do see AMI PERC2/DC scsi raid drivers
> for RHEL3.
>  
>  American Megatrends (AMI) PERC2/DC, v.1.06, A04
>  Release Date:  04/15/2004
>  Description:  This firmware release creates a bootable firmware update
> diskette for Dell 
>  PERC 2/DC controller. 
>  
> 
>  
>  Richard Humphrey wrote: 
>  Unfortunately there are no drivers for the PERC2/DC card on their site that
> I can find. I am beginning to wonder if something else is wrong. If I can
> create partitions and format them etc, wouldnt the linux installed driver be
> working? I just get failures when installing packages.. I see others that
> are having no trouble with this card, so it makes me wonder if it could be
> something else. On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:25:18 -0500,
> Mace.Scott@tatravelcenters.com <Mace.Scott@tatravelcenters.com> wrote: 
>  Go to the Dell support site and download the zip file for the driver. Make
> sure you choose RHES3 as your OS. When you unzip it, (at least that was the
> case for my 2650) you will find a file with the .img extension. That is a
> floppy image for the driver disk. That .img file may be on the cd, but I'd
> just get the latest from Dell. When you get that image on a floppy, start
> your install with the command "linux dd" You will get prompted for the disk
> when it needs it. To get the image on a floppy, you can use dd on a linux
> box: dd if=<filename>.img of=/dev/fd0 ========================= Scott Mace
> Security Administrator Travelcenters of America 440-808-4318
> mace.scott@tatravelcenters.com ========================= Richard Humphrey
> <rlhumphrey@gmail.com> Sent by: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org 01/12/2005
> 09:37 AM Please respond to Richard Humphrey <rlhumphrey@gmail.com> To
> whitebox-users@beau.org cc Subject Re: [WBEL-users] WBEL on a Dell Poweredge
> 4400 I am still having problems getting WBEL installed on this machine. Here
> is osme more info. This server has a PERC2/DC raid card in it (AMI, not LSI)
> I believe. I have updated the BIOS and the RAID firmware to the latest from
> DELL. I have seen several articles talking about getting the megaraid2
> driver from the cdrom, but dont see how to do this. Also I cant seem to find
> the driver elsewhere. A pointer int he right direction would be most helpful
> as I need to put this machine back into service (It formerlay had Windows
> 2000 server on it) running WBEL. Thanks. On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:59:16 -0600,
> Richard Humphrey <rlhumphrey@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, > > I will try out
> the Megaraid2 driver. I thought I was using valid > media, but I am going to
> redownload and burn again and scan to make > sure it's all good. > > Thanks
> for the tip/ > > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:17:04 -0600, Ed Cooley
> <ecooley@strategy5.com> wrote: > > Did you scan the CD for errors? You might
> also try using the megaraid2 > > driver which can be selected in expert
> mode. > > > > --- > > Ed Cooley > > Strategy Systems, Inc. > > > > > >
> -----Original Message----- > > From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
> [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] > > On Behalf Of Richard Humphrey > >
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:46 PM > > To: whitebox-users@beau.org > >
> Subject: [WBEL-users] WBEL on a Dell Poweredge 4400 > > > > I have a Dell
> Poweredge 4400 server that I am trying to install WBEL > > (Respin 1 CD's)
> on. It auto loads the megaraid drivers and I can get > > through the
> configuration choices part of anaconda just fine, it's > > just that when it
> begins to install packages it will simply hang up on > > the first CD. FWIW
> I am doing a minimal install and I also tried > > minimal install with the
> addition of Apache/MySQL and I get the same > > thing every time. It doesnt
> seem to hang on the same packages either, > > it is a different package each
> time. > > > > As a test I d/l CentOS and burned the ISO's and tried the
> install and > > basically the same thing happened only with CentOS the
> installer > > terminated and I got the "You may now reboot your system
> message" > > > > Anyone had any similar problems? Any suggestions. I googles
> for RHEL + > > Poweredge and didnt find anything related really. > > > > --
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