Re: SATA on Dell PowerEdge SC420

2004-10-27 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:02:45AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > name of the needed module (in that case "ata_piix") > I had the same problem in #275428. Same basic chipset (ICH6). > ata_piix is not in the "linux" d-i kernel (upstream did not merge it into > 2.4.x until 2.4.28-pre1, before t

Re: SATA on Dell PowerEdge SC420

2004-10-25 Thread Gavin Hamill
(apologies for breaking the thread) OK, after a big grep of the kernel source, the SATA disk controller + disk are now detected, and the rest of the pre-reboot install executed perfectly. It turns out I needed to 'modprobe ata_piix' for the SATA to appear as a SCSI device - I don't know if this

SATA on Dell PowerEdge SC420

2004-10-25 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hullo :) We just received a shiny new entry-level server from Dell this morning - Dell have only recently started shipping these servers, and I'm sorry to say that the latest nightly build of d-i does not detect the SATA IDE disk in this machine, and the CD-ROM on parallel IDE is working fine a

d-i beta3 ramblings...

2004-04-24 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hullo :) This is the first time I've used d-i and I'm generally very impressed, but I do have some moans, which I present here for your consumption. I'm sure some of these will have been flagged before, so please let me know the score - if some need to be officially lodged in bugs.d.o, also let