Hi, I encountered a similar problem when I was trying to install Debian on a SATA drive in my 8500. I wanted to partition the disk for MacOS classic and Debian, but Apple's Disk utility would not recognize the drive. I ended up using my old debian installer to partition the disk, and used cp -ax to do a direct copy of my old system, partition by partition, to the new disk.
In your case, you'd probably have to do the opposite - have Apple's disk utility partition the disk as you wish, and use your current Debian disk to format and copy over your partitions. You will probably have to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/yaboot.conf on the system you copied over to reflect the new disk layout, but it should be a quick and dirty way to get you up and running on your Xserve. cheers vinai P.S. How noisy is your Xserve in light to moderate usage ? On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, John Koskie wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know where to get a driver for the Hitachi SATA drives that > come with the Xserve G5. > > I successfully installed Sarge on one of the machines by placing a > Maxotr SATA drive in a G5 tower, installing onto that drive, compiling > the latest 2.6.8 kernel, then placing the Maxtor disk into the > Xserve....it works fine. > > However, when I try the same with the Hitachi hard drive that comes wit > hthe Xserve the disk cannot be accessed. Discover cannot correctly > identify it. Th disk is labeled: Hitachi Deskstar HDS722580VLSA80 SATA > and "Apple HDD Firmware". > > I haven't filed a bug report yet since it seems I just don't know the > right driver. > > Thanks for any help > > John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
