I think my problem is solved, i upgraded the dac960 firmware to the latest release (2.70) from HP. now install-debian is in progress, i'll let you know how it ends. - thanks for your time.
On 1/22/08, Ivan Jager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, socraxko, tomaxko's evil personality wrote: > > I've managed to boot over the network and begin the install process, > > however when i get to the "Partition disks" screen it only shows One > disk, a > > scsi seagate of 2Gb (QLogic qla1280 controller).. > > and i can't view my raid5 (DAC960 controller) ~12Gb Disk Array. > > > > lsmod shows: > > > > sd_mod 26504 0 > > DAC960 92400 1 > > qla1280 128992 0 > > scsi_mod 175400 2 sd_mod, qla1280 > > > > i'm no expert, but both modules seems to be loaded. > > Got any ideas? > > 1. RTFM linux/Documentation/README.DAC960 . Check that your card and > firmware version are supported. If you don't have linux sources anywhere, > http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/README.DAC960 seems to have copy, > which may or may not be the latest version. > > 2. Read the output of dmesg. I'm guessing it is complaining about an > unsupported firmware version. That's just a guess, since you didn't > provide much information. (Checking that the module was loaded is a good > step in the right direction, but you should check other basic things too.) > > > Ivan >