Installing to a Poweredge 1400

[John]

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 12:46 -0500, Torsten Spooner wrote:
> This is on a Poweredge 1400.
> Raid controller AIC 7899  version 25306
> I've tried to install a number of times with different CD's (and distros).
> 
> I'm mostly having trouble with the PERC controller, and not seeing the
> disks to Partition.
> My most recent attempt was with Ubuntu Server.
> 
> The installer shows that the aacraid, aic79xx, aic7xxx, and aic7xxx_old
> are available. Once one of them is selected,  it responds that it cannot
> find the hard drives. If the aic7xxx_old is selected, it continues, but
> then searches for the RAID and comes up with nothing

 Maybe Enable Mass Storage on the Controller Card Bios

> lsmod tells me that they are being added properly. I am assming that the
> versions are not correct somewhere?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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Some older Power Edge Servers need to have the bios configured to Mass
Storage for the OS (linux) to recognize the LUNs, Disk Array, Raid
Configuration Also you may need to load the drivers @ the install prompt
something like "[user at foo]#linux dd" good luck!

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