[CentOS] Help with installing on Supermicro X6DHT-G server Marvell H2 SATA

I am trying to build a file server with 1 x 80 GB main drive and 4 x 500 
GB SATA drives in RAID in a Supermicro 3U server.
I found out the hard way that Centos 4.2 does not have a driver for the 
onboard Marvell H2 controller the drives are connected to.

Supermicro techs sent me aar81xx.rhel4qu2.i686.img as an img file. I 
used dd to copy to a floppy and dd confirmed successful write.

I booted Centos 4.2 and chose linux dd. When prompted I inserted the 
floppy and the driver was loaded. However, when it came to partitioning 
the drives, no drives could be found. I tried loading the driver during 
install using F2 for "other drivers", still no go.

Has anyone had success with this process or am I doing it wrong? The img 
file can be downloaded from 
http://www.masonc.com/aar81xx.rhel4qu2.i686.img if anyone would like to 
test it.

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Chris Mason
NetConcepts



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