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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.