On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:
When I boot the system it displays
Phoenix - Award BIOS V6.00PG
SuperMicro P4SCA/P4SCE BIOS 1.3A
yeah it's a p4sca or p4sce, thats consistent with everything else.
On the bottom of the initial screen on left side it says
4/14/2005 - Canterwood - 6A79BSX9C-00
canterwood is intel 7210 chipset.
Pressing CTRL-I brings up the screen to configure the level of RAID (0 or 1)
On top of that screen it says Intel RAID for Serial ATA V3.5.0.3003
The front of the case says SuperMicro but on the top (slide off) cover it
says Visionman. I've been to both SuperMicro.com and Visionman.com web sites
but neither has a Linux driver for Intel. They have drivers they say are for
RH 9 with specific kernel versions but neither of those work.
I don't understand why the Fedora Core 4 installation (which recognized the
RAID controller and loaded the correct driver) failed to boot after it said
the installation was complete.
Are you raiding the disks in the bios? If you are you shouldn't do that,
it's a software raid controller. Rather you use linux software raid for
that purpose.
Fedora core 4 does recognize the ich5r as a sata controller, but not as a
raid controller, so your the bios is probably pointing at a raid device
that doesn't really exist without some driver glue.
I'm in the process of installing FC4 for the
fifth time now to see if there is some way to salvage this hardware.
I've got a couple p4sci's out in the field running fc3, the only reall
difference between those and these is 64 bit pci slots.
It's
looking more and more like I'll be getting an RMA from TigerDirect.com for
this one.
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