Greetings: I have a machine that I'm trying to install Debian onto. The hardware consists of:
Tyan K8WE Motherboard (2) Opteron 270 CPUs 4GB memory 3Ware 9500S with 4(RAID5) HDs The driver for the 3Ware card (3w-9xxx) isn't loaded by the installer, so there is no device /dev/sda to install onto. Using the second virtual console to manually load the 3w-9xxx driver doesn't help. The driver loads correctly, but it doesn't detect the disk array. This behavior occurs with the Beta 2 Etch netboot image, and with the nightly build also. The Sarge image doesn't work either, but it fails even earlier in the process. I thought that perhaps some of the drivers that were getting loaded were interfering with the operation of the 3w-9xxx driver, so I tried the install in expert mode and didn't let the installer load all of those ide chipset drivers, but it didn't help. I tried a PXE network install so that I could load no IDE drivers, but no dice either. I don't know if it is a problem with this particular kernel version or what. I tried the Ubuntu 5.10 live CD which has 2.6.12, and it is able to load the 3w-9xxx driver and see /dev/sda properly. After loading the driver manually, dmesg reports that version 2.26.02.004 is loaded. Can anyone offer any insight? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
