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

[Jeff O'Brien]

Excellent Jose, Glad to help.

I ran into that problem a few months back and I knew how much of a pain 
it was(not to mention the frustration).  Dell is revamping the PowerEdge 
line some time soon. So who knows what we'll have to do next to get a 
*nix distro installed.

Best of Luck

-Jeff

jruiz at sweethomerel.com wrote:

>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.
>>
>>---
>>
>>Jeff O'Brien
>>Network Technician/ Manufacturing
>>Net Technologies / Signull Technologies
>>1-866-NTI-LINUX / 1-888-Signull
>>jobrien at ntilinux.com
>>
>>
>>    
>>


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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