Centos 4.0 on SC440 SATA

[Barry Wiseman]

Right, I was stupidly unaware of being behind the current rev (how time
flies when you're having fun). Thanks to all who replied.


On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, William Warren wrote:

> you need to be using 4.4 and it works fine on the sc440 here.
> 
> Barry Wiseman wrote:
> > I am trying to get this OS installed on this server.  The distro CD of course does 
> > not recognize the SATA controller.  My assumptions (right or wrong) are:
> > 
> > 1.  I need the ata_piix driver found on the Server Installation CD.
> > 
> > 2.  I create a driver diskette by dd'ing the ata_piix-1.02c-rhel4-G-multiarch-dd.img 
> > file onto a floppy.
> > 
> > 3.  Floppy drive, hmmm... I have located a specimen of this 20th century hardware 
> > device in my boneyard, hung it on the SC440 and gotten it to (possibly) work.
> > 
> > 4.  I install the driver from the diskette by booting the Centos 4.0 CD with "linux 
> > dd" and then following the prompts to install the driver.
> > 
> > I boot into Setup, change the default diskette device from USB to Internal, then 
> > proceed as above.  Sure enough, the install detects the fd0 device and offers to read 
> >   driver files from it.  The diskette drive then kicks briefly, and errors out.  The 
> > portion of the message not obscured by the following dialog box reads:
> > 
> >       or -2147483630 reading header: cpio: read failed - No such file or directory
> > 
> > Well, the floppy is not a cpio archive, it's a mountable filesys:
> > 
> > total 105
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           23 Jun 14  2005 disk-info
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           59 Jun 14  2005 modinfo
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       102128 Jun 14  2005 modules.cgz
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           26 Jun 14  2005 modules.dep
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          588 Jun 14  2005 modules.pcimap
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          698 Jun 14  2005 pci.ids
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          370 Jun 14  2005 pcitable
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           27 Jun 14  2005 rhdd
> > 
> > I would begin by verifying the diskette drive I'm using actually works (a step I've 
> > skipped thus far), but I suspect I'm going a lot wronger than that.  Any guidance is 
> > much appreciated.
> > 
> > 
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