[K12OSN] SATA and K12LTSP

[Jim Hays]

Thanks, Shahms, Eric, and Brad.  I have forwarded your responses to 
Rich.  I hope that he can solve his problem with the information you 
have provided.  Excellent info,

Thanks again.


Shahms King wrote:

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>Eric Harrison wrote:
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>>Jim Hays wrote:
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>>>A friend who uses K12LTSP just bought a new server for his K12LTSP lab
>>>that has SATA drives.  He is trying to install K12LTSP 4.4.1 and it will
>>>not install on the SATA drives.
>>>
>>>Does K12LTSP "play nice" with SATA?  Does he need a newer version.
>>>
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>>A some-what common problem is "RAID" turned on in the bios on a
>>"Fake-RAID" controller (i.e. a RAID controller that requires special
>>software drivers to work).
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>>Check the system bios and/or the SATA controller bios (if it has one) to
>>make sure that any RAID settings are disabled.
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>>If it happens to be a "real" hardware RAID controller, sometimes you
>>have to create the RAID volumes and initialize them before the operating
>>system can see the drives.
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>>If neither of those suggestions do the trick, it would be helpful if we
>>knew the make/model of the SATA controller (and/or the make/model of the
>>server)
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>>-Eric
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>Additionally, there are some known installation problems with certain
>SATA controllers and FC4 (on which K12LTSP 4.4.1 is based), so knowning
>which controller he has would be useful.  Look through the bugs at the
>link below and see if any applies to your hardware:
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>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=sata&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=sata&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=sata&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=sata&field1-0-0=product&type1-0-0=substring&value1-0-0=install&field1-0-1=component&type1-0-1=substring&value1-0-1=install&field1-0-2=short_desc&type1-0-2=substring&value1-0-2=install&field1-0-3=status_whiteboard&type1-0-3=substring&value1-0-3=install
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>As a side note, I have an SATA harddrive at home that wasn't found by
>the default installer but after working some magic (which, sadly, I no
>longer remember) I got things installed and running.  I should note that
>the installer doesn't have all of the drivers that the final install
>does, so difficulty during install doesn't necessarily mean the drive(s)
>won't work once installed.
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