On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
(...) > Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS > show the disk device, RAID level, and its size? > > What we need to figure out is whether this is a BIOS problem at this > point or a Debian installer kernel driver problem. I have finally found some time to work on the problem: I set up a raid1 in the hba bios. I couldn't install onto it with the supermicro mb. Then I mounted the lsi hba into my old server with an Asus mb (can't remember which one it is, must have to check it at home...). It (almost) works like a charm. The only issue is that I can't enter the hba BIOS when it's mounted in the Asus mb. But when I put it back into the Supermicro mb I can access it again. Very strange! But apart from that I could install Debian onto the raid1. Then I set the bios to use the disks as jbods and installed Debian gain to a drive directly attached to the mb sata controller. With the original squeeze kernel the disks attached to the hba weren't visible. But after updating to the bpo kernel I can fdisk them separately and put it into a raid5 (in the end I want to apply the 500G partition method Cameleon suggested). > Did you already flash the C7P67 BIOS to the latest version? I can't > recall. I have tried to do that but it was quite strange. I created a freedos usb stick with unetbootin and copied the files for the update from supermicro into the stick. I did exactly what the readmes told me. But when I did it the first time there was no output of the flash process and the directory where the supermicro files were located on the stick was empty. When I tried to do the procedure again it complains that I have to first install version 1. I will now bring it to my dealer who can do the BIOS update for me. And I will write to Supermicro if they are aware of the issue. Best regards Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120529140927.10dde651@nb-10114
