[CentOS] Installing on Hardware RAID - Adaptec 7890/7860
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.comTue Oct 31 00:21:19 UTC 2006
- Previous message: [CentOS] Installing on Hardware RAID - Adaptec 7890/7860
- Next message: [CentOS] Centos and Network Attached Storage
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 19:10 -0500, Steve Huff wrote: > On Oct 30, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) > wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm trying to install the CentOS 4.4 Server CD on old hardware. The > > hardware is a Dell PowerEdge 2300 with Adaptec 7890 and 7860 > > controllers. It's the first time I've done a Linux install with > > hardware RAID. > > > > However, I'm having trouble getting CentOS (as well as Fedora Core 6) > > to detect the SCSI hard drives. When it comes to the part where you > > choose where to install Linux, it just doesn't detect the hard drives. > > Is this another old megaraid driver issue? Try here: > > http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/4-Installing-RHEL4- > on-Systems-with-Legacy-Megaraid-Drivers.html ---- adaptec is typically aac/aacraid megaraid is LSI (often rebranded by Dell as PERC 2) at least the one's that were affected by this. The tuxyturvy.com page referred to above has been working for me with my caveats but this isn't his issue. You might be SOL - try booting 'linux noprobe' and manually loading the Adaptec drivers. CentOS 3.x is likely to still work though. Craig
- Previous message: [CentOS] Installing on Hardware RAID - Adaptec 7890/7860
- Next message: [CentOS] Centos and Network Attached Storage
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
More information about the CentOS mailing list