RAID - drivers needed?

[William Tasso]

Greetings One & All

Does this group have an FAQ?

I have a DELL PowerEdge 2300 that I'd like to press into service as a dev
box.

Ubuntu won't install[1] - can't get past partitioning as it can't see the
RAID arrays.

I'd be grateful if some kind soul could point me in the right direction.

Cheers

[1] FWIW: gentoo has a similar issue, XP loads straight on.
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William Tasso

[William Tasso]

Richard G. Riley <rgriley@gmail.com> wrote:

> "William"posted the following on 2006-03-09:

>> ...
>> I have a DELL PowerEdge 2300 that I'd like to press into service as a
>> dev
>> box.
>>
>> Ubuntu won't install[1] - can't get past partitioning as it can't see
>> the
>> RAID arrays.
>>
>> I'd be grateful if some kind soul could point me in the right direction.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> [1] FWIW: gentoo has a similar issue, XP loads straight on.

>
> [url]http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-15605.html[/url]
>
> might disappoint you.

aye - troubling indeed - and odd, this box did have a *n*x installed at
some point.

Pity, I've no need for another Win server but a breezy box would be just
loverly jubberly right now. There's an adaptec controller in the box too
- maybe I'll see if that can be persuaded to present the HDDs nicely
although I suspect that route may be more trouble than it's worth.

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William Tasso

[William Tasso]

Richard G. Riley <rgriley@gmail.com> wrote:

> "William"posted the following on 2006-03-09:

>> ...
>> DELL PowerEdge 2300 ...
>>
>> Ubuntu won't install[1] - can't get past partitioning as it can't see
>> the
>> RAID arrays.

>
> [url]http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-15605.html[/url]
>
> might disappoint you.

and the answer is .....

plug the HD backplane into the on-board Adaptec SCSI controller -
completely by-passing the PERC card.

ok - meand no RAID but this is a dev box that will never again see active
service in a production setting so I'm a happy bunny.

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William Tasso