To all: I've gotten some good feedback from members of this list. I've also gotten some information from Dell. Here is what I got: **************************************************************************** ****** Hi Mark. This has come up several times lately. I'll try to help. SuSE 7ES is based on SuSE 7.2. The aacraid driver included there does not know the PCI IDs for the RAID controller in the PE1650 or PE2650, nor does it have the ability to have the PCI IDs passed in as an option (as the 7.3 release does). What you need is a driver disk for 7ES which has a more recent aacraid driver which simply adds the PCI IDs for those into the driver's list of known devices. Unfortunately, no one has yet created such (see my note on http://domsch.com/linux about seeking volunteers). SuSE tech support contacted our German sales office a few weeks ago looking for the driver disk - I had hoped that they would create one seeing as they know better how to create one than I. So far I haven't heard back from SuSE on this. These two platforms in particular are difficult because of the timing when they came out relative to the releases by SuSE and Red Hat. The PCI IDs were in flux for the platforms right up until they were released, making it hard to get drivers right beforehand. If you can make a driver disk, I'd be happy to post it to http://domsch.com/linux, our unofficial site for how to get stuff working. If SuSE can do this for you, great, but you'd have to contact them. Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux Dell public Linux lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com #1 US Linux Server provider for 2001 and Q1/2002! (IDC May 2002) **************************************************************************** ********* -----Original Message----- From: Kovacs, Mark [mailto:Mark.Kovacs@pharma.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 10:49 AM To: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: [SLE] Installing SuSe 7ES on Dell PowerEdge 2550 and 1650's Hi, This is a *newbie* question. I've been able to install 7ES on Dell workstations as well as HP servers with HP RAID controllers without any issues. When it comes to installing on Dell servers, it has problems with the RAID controller. RedHat installs without a hitch on these same boxes, but I'm really interested in getting SuSe installed. I get the "No disks" message during installation. I've done some searching through the archives and tried to manually load the module, but maybe I'm doing it wrong. Does anyone have suggestions, input or direction ? I've had great success in getting our enterprise applications (Oracle, TSM, etc) running on SuSe as opposed to the headaches with RedHat. thanks, mark -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com