Archives March 16, 2006

Thursday, 16th March 2006

Chip

Whoa! A blog!

I've been fighting with these damn servers, well one in particular... The one with CPUs. Funny that. The main boggle I have is linux installers not being able to find the PERC2/SC SCSI backplane in the system!

I've Tried:

  • Debian 3
  • Debian 3.1 R0A (Sarge)
  • Ubuntu 5.04 (Breezy Badger)
  • Ubuntu 5.10 (Hoary Hedgehog)
  • Ubuntu 5.10 Server (Hoary Hedgehog)
  • Fedora Core 4
  • Fedora Core 5 Test 3 - 4.92

The only one to pick up the backplain and install is FC4. FC3 would probably too. FC5 I am a little dissapointed in. There was an invalid EIP value error, it did detect the backplane though. Failed to boot the kernel though.

Current Specs:

  • Dual P3 667
  • 256MB PC133 ECC SDRAM
  • 8.5GB RAID 1 (2 x Atlas 10K Vs), 25.5GB  RAID 5 (4 x Atlas 10K IVs)
  • SCSI CDROM
  • 1.44MB FDD
  • PERC2/SC SCSI RAID Backplane
  • Intel Pro Ethernet 10/100 card, Generic 10/100/1000 card
  • Adaptec AIC-7890 U160 SCSI controller.