Topic: No hard drives have been found.

[skydivers]

Hello there,

First off all, i am quiet a noob on linux so don't shoot at me if i ask some stupid questions

I want to install SME Server on a supermicro server (motherboard H8SSP-I http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/HT2000/H8SSP-i.cfm
).
When I boot from the cd it says: "No hard drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose device drivers for the installation to succeed."
I use 2 SATA drives, each 76GB. On the motherboard is a HT1000 controller SATA RAID 0, 1, 10 which I don't want to use (i prefer sme's software raid) and i assume that the SATA drivers i need are "Marvell Hercules 2 SATA driver" which I can find on a cd of the morherboard.

Can someone help me with this problem. How do I get the drivers into the system? Because they are not in list which i get when i click on "add device".

Thanx a lot!

[william_syd]

Interesting link..

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2113&forum=29&post_id=6854#forumpost6854

You may want to contact supermicro and ask for drivers for Red Hat EL4 Update 4 if your going to install SMEServer 7.1

Update 3 was SMEServer 7.0

You want a driver disk image which you copy to a floppy.

When you boot 7.1 from CD, at the first screen you see F something for help. You want to look for a command similar to SME dd . This is how you get the driver on the floppy onto you hard drives.

What do you have on your mainboard CD?

[skydivers]

On the cd are drivers for redhat linux EL 4. I have to check on the update version. There are drivers for the onboard raid and for the SATA drives.

If i understand it correct i'll have to put these on a driver disk? And then at startup load them into the hard drives?

Thanx a lot william!

Interesting link..

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2113&forum=29&post_id=6854#forumpost6854

You may want to contact supermicro and ask for drivers for Red Hat EL4 Update 4 if your going to install SMEServer 7.1

Update 3 was SMEServer 7.0

You want a driver disk image which you copy to a floppy.

When you boot 7.1 from CD, at the first screen you see F something for help. You want to look for a command similar to SME dd . This is how you get the driver on the floppy onto you hard drives.

What do you have on your mainboard CD?

[skydivers]

I tried a lot of things but none off them work.

On the cd are drivers for RHEL4. They don't work (they appear in the list, but when i select them they don't appear as an added device).

I asked supermicro for drivers of RHEL update 3 (centos 4.3). They gave me this link: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SATA/ServerWorks/RAID/Linux/

I can find drivers for dd-bcraid-RHEL4-2.6.9-11.EL-i686.img on this ftp but these don't work as well. (isn't the kernel version above wrong???)

Can someone please help me, it's about an onboard HT1000 Raid (motherboard H8SSP-I)

Thanx a lot!

[william_syd]

e-mail them back and ask for drivers for 2.6.9-42.0.3

[william_syd]

Instructions to Enable SATA-IDE Mode for H8SSLi under RedHat Linux Operating Systems

1.   In the command prompt, type the following at the command line and then install OS:
linux ide1=0xb080,0xb002  (1 SATA drive attached)
linux ide1=0xb080,0xb002 ide2=0xac00,0xa882  (2 SATA drives attached)
linux ide1=0xb080,0xb002 ide2=0xac00,0xa882 ide3=0xbc00,0xb882  (3 SATA drives attached)
linux ide1=0xb080,0xb002 ide2=0xac00,0xa882 ide3=0xbc00,0xb882 ide4=0xb800,0xb480  (4
SATA drives attached)
2.   During the GUI installation, in the “GRUB boot loader Configuration” section, check the “Configure advanced boot loader option” box, and press enter to the next step.
3.   In the “GRUB boot loader Configuration” page, type the following in the “General Kernel Parameters” field, then press next:
linux ide1=0xb080,0xb002  (1 SATA drives attached)
linux ide1=0xb080,0xb002 ide2=0xac00,0xa882  (2 SATA drives attached)
linux ide1=0xb080,0xb002 ide2=0xac00,0xa882 ide3=0xbc00,0xb882  (3 SATA drives attached)
linux ide1=0xb080,0xb002 ide2=0xac00,0xa882 ide3=0xbc00,0xb882 ide4=0xb800,0xb480  (4
SATA drives attached)
4.   Continue and finish the installation.

Note:
u   No driver required for enabling SATA-IDE mode

ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SATA/ServerWorks/IDE/

[gordonr]

I use 2 SATA drives, each 76GB. On the motherboard is a HT1000 controller SATA RAID 0, 1, 10 which I don't want to use (i prefer sme's software raid) and i assume that the SATA drivers i need are "Marvell Hercules 2 SATA driver" which I can find on a cd of the morherboard.

You should be able to disable the onboard RAID controller in the system BIOS, or possibly the RAID controller BIOS. Some onboard RAID controllers cannot be disabled, and my only advice there is to take it back.

Can someone help me with this problem. How do I get the drivers into the system? Because they are not in list which i get when i click on "add device".

You should not need driver disks if you don't plan to use the onboard RAID controller.

[skydivers]

Thanx gordon en william, i'm going to try this in the evening. Let you know if it works!

[skydivers]

William,

I tried what you said. And indeed now the setup starts without the issue of not finding hard drives BUT when the setup starts formatting the disks. It gets stuck every time at the "formatting /boot".
Maybe I do something wrong because i did not yet have the chance in the setup to complete your steps 2,3 and 4. I could only do step one en therafter it fails (hangs).
Do you have a suggestion?

Gordon,

I tried also what you said, i can disable the HT1000 S-ATA. But when i do that, it still asks after the drivers...

Thanx guys!

[skydivers]

For testing purposes I installed OpenSuse 10.2 on the server. This does the job without failing.
Just downloaded the 7.1 version of SME, will test on that one.

Greetz

[skydivers]

Installed sme server 7.1 and this one does the job

Installed in less then 5 minutes, software raid 1 is working properly!

Again, thank you guys!