[K12OSN] Installing K12LTSP to a SATA Hard Disk on theKT600/VT8237Chipset
Joe Guenther
jguenther at chinooksedge.ab.ca
Wed Jul 7 22:44:30 UTC 2004
Matt,
What SATA controller card is in that SuperMicro server. I also recently got a supermicro server with an Adaptec 1210S controller. I did not get it running. I just installed everything onto a normal IDE hd and have left the SATA till we get a different card - thinking getting a 3ware card.
I'd be interested in seeing what they put in from the factory, as I think our card was added by our local retailer.
Joe Guenther
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LANtech - Didsbury
Chinook's Edge School Div.
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From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
Behalf Of Matthew Ross
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 4:04 PM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Installing K12LTSP to a SATA Hard Disk on
theKT600/VT8237Chipset
I am currently having headaches installing linux on our Brand New
SuperMicro 5013C-MT. This is a 1U Pentium 4 server, with 4 hot-swapable
SATA drive bays in front. The only trouble is that the SATA controller
is not exactly supported by Linux yet.
The SATA controler on this system is using a Marvell chipset. Looking
around on various lists, it looks like alpha support has just appeared
in an open-source implementation of the 'libata' driver, but that's only
in the most recent 2.6.6 and 2.6.7 kernels. I don't know of any distros
which install using those kernels. Checking with Supermicro's website,
they have binary RPM drivers for Redhat 8 and 9 and for Suse, but what
if I wanted to install appon a mirrored system drive?
If you want to see the current list of supported SATA drivers, this page
here has a fairly good summary:
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
Wishing everything was open source,
--Matt
Burke Almquist wrote:
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> I think you might need to change a setting in BIOS for it to "legacy"
> something for it to work. Just something I've heard, not seen first
> hand.
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> On Jul 7, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
>
>> I had no problems installing it on my other motherboard – same chip
>> 2500 Athlon xp with Silicon Image SATA controller. But the VT8237
>> Chipset is not recognized by K12LTSP even though it is recognized by
>> bios. I have tried following the instructions on the website
>> mentioned below using the other machine as the host. But it isn’t
>> working yet.
>>
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