[WBEL-users] WBEL 4 does not recognize SATA drives on PowerEdge SC430

[jruiz at sweethomerel.com]

Jeff,

I tried like you described with the drivers from Dell and it worked with
x86_64. I was able to install everything without any problem. I have the
server running now. Many thanks for your help.

Jose

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff O'Brien" <jobrien at ntisys.com>
To: <jruiz at sweethomerel.com>
Cc: <whitebox-users at beau.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] WBEL 4 does not recognize SATA drives on PowerEdge
SC430


> jruiz at sweethomerel.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to install WBEL4 x86_64 on a Dell PE SC430 and the installer
> > failed to recognize the SATA HDD (it uses Intel ICH7R). If anyone has
> > an idea on how to resolve this issue I would appreciate it. Thanks in
> > advance.
> >
> > Jose
> >
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> Im not to certain for x86_64, but for my i386 install on an SC430 I
> downloaded the SATA drivers from dell support site and then created the
> driver disk.   (dd if=/path/to/ata_piix....img of=/dev/fd0)
> File name:  ata_piix-1.02b-rhel4-multiarch-1.tar.gz
>
> Once I had the driver disk created.  During the install when it prompts
> you that it cant find the hard drive you have to hit <f2> and select
> load device drivers from fd0(with driver disk in) and that should bring
> up the drivers list, scroll down to ata_piix hit enter and it should
> start the install.
>
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>
> Jeff O'Brien
> Network Technician/ Manufacturing
> Net Technologies / Signull Technologies
> 1-866-NTI-LINUX / 1-888-Signull
> jobrien at ntilinux.com
>
>