No, in fact I didn't. Odd. I did have to pass a crapload of bootup commands (noscsi among them), but I have no record of what I used... Thanks fer the help... Jonathan Peter Farrow wrote: > But.... did you use software RAID on the other identical machine you > installed with the older disk? > > P. > > > Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote: > >> Unfortunately the "Raid controller " that the hardware says that >> comes with, uses a software driver in order to perform the raid >> functions. So to make the long story short just use the OS soft raid >> functionality >> >> Have fun. >> Good day >> >> Nikos >> >> On 5/7/05, Jonathan <j at firebright.com> wrote: >> >> >>> List: >>> >>> Good morning. I'm hoping someone is still up who can lend me an ear. >>> I'm sitting on the floor of Mae West surrounded by disassembled >>> servers, >>> frustrated out of my mind. Same as last weekend. ;-) >>> >>> Actually, I'm having a weird issue. I have a Dell 420SC in front of >>> me. It's a fine machine, brand new. p4 2.8 800Mhz bus, 1GB DDR2 >>> (2x512) and dual 80GB drives. I've used the onboard raid to build a >>> raid-0+1 (mirror) raid array. The problem is, it's telling me as soon >>> as I load up the setup for CentOS 4 that no drives are available and >>> that I should load up some. >>> >>> Odd. >>> >>> I have three machines running CentOS 4 over here with the identical >>> specs, and identical settings. One even has the exact same >>> configuration, including raid setup, and it's running happily. But it >>> was installed from and older CentOS 4 disk (got scratched). I've got >>> about 12 more to do tonight. How is it possible that the same machine >>> with concurrent serial numbers won't load RAID? Is there some trick? >>> >>> I'm really at a loss on this one. I'm on the 14th floor. Now if I >>> could get one of these windows to open, I think I have a very easy >>> solution... >>> >>> Anyone have any experience with this? Is there some trick to getting >>> these 420SC's to load CentOS? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Jonathan >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >