Load teh 3w-xxxx I not how but it works. Ryven
Am Sonntag 26 März 2006 04:42 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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.