dear list, just wanted to give you the ending of this story: there were two drivers available for download: mptlinux-3.02.56-4.sles9.i586.dd and adpahci.v1.19.V414A19.V041A7.sles9.i586.img. They both did NOT work. One made the server EXTREMELY slow, and with both I still had no harddisks to install to. Since this whole thing started taking too long, I decided to do software root raid via yast now. Created a raid1 in yast, containing both sata drives. That works nicely. Thanks for your input anyway! I have various IBM xSeries servers running here, and they were MUCH easier to install to than this Proliant DL320. Kind regards, Mourik Jan mourik jan heupink wrote:
Hello to all who have responded!
I'm surprised by so many reactions!
First of all I will try the "proliant support pack for suse" solution offered below. If that doesn't help, I will call HP, and post the result here.
Again: I really appreciate all the discussion that took place!
Kind regards!
Mourik Jan
Francisco Javier Lopez wrote:
We use some DL servers (both sata and scsi) in our enterprise. If you need drivers you can load them from hp site. Look for "Proliant Suppor Pack for SuSE", who is a cd with all drivers for SuSE linux. Officialy only SLES versions are supported but you can install the sles-8 drivers over all 2.4 kernels (SuSE 8.x) and sles-9 drivers over 2.6 kernels (SuSE 9.x) without problems. Y have to create a driver's diskete using Proliant Support Pack with a utility who is in the same cd. Load the driver when boot.
Regards Francisco El Jueves, 12 de Enero de 2006 17:18, mourik jan c heupink escribió:
dear list,
I am having a HARD time installing suse 9.3 on a brand new Proliant DL320 G3 with SATA RAID 1.
After enabling raid1 in the bios, creating an array, and creating a logical drive in the array (230 gig) suse installation does NOT see a harddisk. Bios messages during post indicate that all is fine: it sees the array, it sees one logical drive in the array, but in the suse installer partitioning fails, because there are no drives to install on.
The sata/raid adapter is an Intel ICH6R/ICH6RW, and I found out that this is so called 'fakeraid'. I had never heard of this. (until now I have only used IBM ServeRAID SCSI) Anyway, how to proceed? Is root raid1 possible on this hardware? Anyone doing it, here? (http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#intel-ich6)
I went to the hp website, there are driver downloads, but all for SuSE Enterprise Server. I DON'T have the enterprise server, but regular 9.3 or 10. Is there anyone here who knows how to get this going? Am I trying to do the impossible? The server IS certified for linux, I checked that, before I bought it...
Anyway, really all suggestions are welcome!
Thanks in advance!
Mourik Jan
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