Re: Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:53 -0500, John Koskie wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. Anyways, for now I am > successul net-booting with the disks removed, so solving the disk issue > is not pressing. > > To answer your question, the Xserve is rather loud. It seems lik

Re: Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:53 -0500, John Koskie wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. Anyways, for now I am > successul net-booting with the disks removed, so solving the disk issue > is not pressing. > > To answer your question, the Xserve is rather loud. It seems lik

Re: Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-14 Thread John Koskie
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. Anyways, for now I am successul net-booting with the disks removed, so solving the disk issue is not pressing. To answer your question, the Xserve is rather loud. It seems like there is some minimal fan control, but much less than when running

Re: Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-14 Thread John Koskie
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. Anyways, for now I am successul net-booting with the disks removed, so solving the disk issue is not pressing. To answer your question, the Xserve is rather loud. It seems like there is some minimal fan control, but much less than when running

Re: Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-13 Thread vinai
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

Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-13 Thread John Koskie
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

Re: Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-13 Thread vinai
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

Xserve G5 disks

2005-01-13 Thread John Koskie
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