I have the same problem with the same server. The problem is obviously the Dell ultra 320 card. The chipset aic-7902 is supported, but they are not successful to install something (I'm try fedora core 3, mandrake 10.1, gentoo 2004.2).
I have try the installation floppy (obviously d'ont work) for RedHat enterprise, but it seems that only present thing is the module aic79xx for kernel the 2.4.
The Dell service in Italy does not know not even that card has put within.
On the kernel module in the floppy there are a Dell e-mail address, I will try to write.
Okay, I spent a few days working on this but I have kind of a work-around. First of all you need to use the newest kernel 2.6 for the widest hardware available.
1. Go into the BIOS and disable RAID.
2. Boot of the Debian CD.
3. It may fail on networking, just manually put in the information. DHCP times out in setup but once you have a working system you can change it back.
4. You can partition the first drive listed as SATA1.
5. Install the system.
6. On reboot you will see a hwclock error, just cntrl-c to get past it.
After that my computer froze a number of times and I had to kill the installation process, configure my network settings by hand, and setup apt for network installation. After upgrading it eventually worked. One interesting thing. I upgraded to the newest kernel 2.6.9.1 and the hwclock error timed out on its own.
quargentan
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November 22nd, 2004 10:00
Hi,
I have the same problem with the same server. The problem is obviously the Dell ultra 320 card. The chipset aic-7902 is supported, but they are not successful to install something (I'm try fedora core 3, mandrake 10.1, gentoo 2004.2).
I have try the installation floppy (obviously d'ont work) for RedHat enterprise, but it seems that only present thing is the module aic79xx for kernel the 2.4.
The Dell service in Italy does not know not even that card has put within.
On the kernel module in the floppy there are a Dell e-mail address, I will try to write.
(Sorry for my english), Nicola.
Nafai
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January 6th, 2005 20:00
1. Go into the BIOS and disable RAID.
2. Boot of the Debian CD.
3. It may fail on networking, just manually put in the information. DHCP times out in setup but once you have a working system you can change it back.
4. You can partition the first drive listed as SATA1.
5. Install the system.
6. On reboot you will see a hwclock error, just cntrl-c to get past it.
After that my computer froze a number of times and I had to kill the installation process, configure my network settings by hand, and setup apt for network installation. After upgrading it eventually worked. One interesting thing. I upgraded to the newest kernel 2.6.9.1 and the hwclock error timed out on its own.
Hope this helps.
Next I'm going to try and get RAID to work again.