Topic: Dell PowerEdge 2300 server with AMI PERC 2/SC SCSI adaptor

[peterhocking]

Hi

I'm trying to install SME 7.1 on the above PC with the PERC 2/SC SCSI adaptor.

The installation stops at the point where it says it can't find a hard drive & then tells me its found some hardware incl the above mentioned SCSI adaptor, the drivers for which are not available from the SME Server 7.1  installation CD.

Can anyone advise me where I could obtain suitable drivers?

If they aren't available, can anyone recommend a suitable SCSI controller that supports RAID 5 that is compatible with SME Server 7.1?

TIA

Peter

P.S. I have checked the forums but the solutions suggested apply to SME 6 or earlier.

[Stefano]

Hi

I'm trying to install SME 7.1 on the above PC with the PERC 2/SC SCSI adaptor.

The installation stops at the point where it says it can't find a hard drive & then tells me its found some hardware incl the above mentioned SCSI adaptor, the drivers for which are not available from the SME Server 7.1  installation CD.

Can anyone advise me where I could obtain suitable drivers?

If they aren't available, can anyone recommend a suitable SCSI controller that supports RAID 5 that is compatible with SME Server 7.1?

TIA

Peter

P.S. I have checked the forums but the solutions suggested apply to SME 6 or earlier.

well.. is the controller supported by Redhat? I mean: dell offers redhat enterprise 4 drivers for it?

sme "is" centos4
centos4 "is" redhat enterprise 4

HTH
ciao
Stefano

[RvLardin]

I think that you won't have any pb to make this (quite) old material recognized by your SME 7
include megaraid modules are _mbo , _mm , _sas.
We use to install on far more recent DELL SCSI (Perc 5 I / E) without any pb.

I think you are under this case :
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-May/008109.html

Update the firmware of your PERC 2 and retry.

A+,
RV.

[mmccarn]

I had the same problem with the same controller.  I eventually found a post (now lost) indicating that the driver for this controller is both buggy and not officially supported.

I moved the hard drives to the motherboard scsi controller and SME installed with no probems...

[JohnG]

I had the same problem with the PERC DC card and it was a simple fix. Within the controller settings I changed the emulation from "I2O" to "MASS STORAGE" and that resolved the problem. This was with installing Fedora Core 6.