Hi,

since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started with 31r0a and currently tried it with 31r5, each was 32bit for i386. Now im trying the 31r5 for ia64 (server is capable of that).

If i do lsmod on the pre-installed system, which is installed by my hoster,it only shows three modules, the main-module is mptsas which needs two other modules.

Is there a fix for the installer or a planned solution in the next release?Thanks


Regards

Ben Humpert

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:23:15PM +0100, Ben Humpert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started with 31r0a and currently tried it with 31r5, each was 32bit for i386. Now im trying the 31r5for ia64 (server is capable of that).
>

use the etch installer. sarge doesn't generally support SATA while
etch does. Etch will be released "any time now" and is already getting
security support and is very usable.

A

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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:09 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:23:15PM +0100, Ben Humpert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started with 31r0a and currently tried it with 31r5, each was 32bit for i386. Now im trying the 31r5 for ia64 (server is capable of that).
> >
>
> use the etch installer. sarge doesn't generally support SATA while
> etch does. Etch will be released "any time now" and is already getting
> security support and is very usable.
>
> A

Agreed. I just did an Etch install on a server with SATA drives. I
used the daily build of the Etch installer from the 5th of this month
and it went flawlessly. The Etch installer is one of the best
installers out there as far as I'm concerned.


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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:23:15 +0100
Ben Humpert <ben_humpert@msn.com> wrote:


> Hi,
>
> since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the
> sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started
> with 31r0a and currently tried it with 31r5, each was 32bit for i386.
> Now im trying the 31r5 for ia64 (server is capable of that). If i do
> lsmod on the pre-installed system, which is installed by my hoster,
> it only shows three modules, the main-module is mptsas which needs
> two other modules. Is there a fix for the installer or a planned
> solution in the next release? Thanks Regards
>
> Ben Humpert


ia64 is Itanium, which is different than amd64 in Debian. Does Dell do
Itanium? Using Etch is good advice.
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> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:23:15 +0100
> Ben Humpert <ben_humpert@msn.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the
>> sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started
>> with 31r0a and currently tried it with 31r5, each was 32bit for i386.
>> Now im trying the 31r5 for ia64 (server is capable of that). If i do
>> lsmod on the pre-installed system, which is installed by my hoster,
>> it only shows three modules, the main-module is mptsas which needs
>> two other modules. Is there a fix for the installer or a planned
>> solution in the next release? Thanks Regards
>>
>> Ben Humpert
>
> ia64 is Itanium, which is different than amd64 in Debian. Does Dell do
> Itanium? Using Etch is good advice.

I have a PowerEdge 850 with a Pentium D processor. It has Intel's EM64T
64-bit support, which can be used with adm64 but *not* ia64. Mine has
been running Etch without any problems using a 32-bit smp kernel.

- Dave

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I installed debian on a PowerEdge 850 flawlessly in October of 2005 using a Testing NetInst CD. It's sad that the SATA support for this machine has since been removed, as I'm now attempting to install debian on another machine which is exactly the same (PowerEdge 850 bought at the same time as the other) using the Sarge Installer and it tells me that no partitionable media is detected.

I'd love to use the Etch installer...if I could ever get it.


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On Sat March 10 2007 11:30, agentace wrote:
> I installed debian on a PowerEdge 850 flawlessly in October of 2005 using a
> Testing NetInst CD. It's sad that the SATA support for this machine has
> since been removed, as I'm now attempting to install debian on another
> machine which is exactly the same (PowerEdge 850 bought at the same time as
> the other) using the Sarge Installer and it tells me that no partitionable
> media is detected.

Something in the chipset must be different?

> I'd love to use the Etch installer...if I could ever get it.

I used the etch installer last night and it worked flawlessly. Why can't you
get it?


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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 20:30:52 +0100, agentace wrote:
>
> I installed debian on a PowerEdge 850 flawlessly in October of 2005 using a
> Testing NetInst CD. It's sad that the SATA support for this machine has
> since been removed, as I'm now attempting to install debian on another
> machine which is exactly the same (PowerEdge 850 bought at the same time as
> the other) using the Sarge Installer and it tells me that no partitionable
> media is detected.

A quick clarification: Support for your SATA controller was not removed
from Sarge. Sarge never had this driver in the first place. Sarge was
released as "stable" in the beginning of June 2005, therefore it is not
surprising that it has less hardware support than a "testing" snapshot
of October 2005. No new drivers are added once a Debian release is
"stable".

> I'd love to use the Etch installer...if I could ever get it.

Do you still have a reasonably fast internet connection? Try the
daily-built i386 NetInst image for Etch which is available
here:

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

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They're they exact same machine: same drive, same chipset, etc.

As for why I haven't been able to get the Etch installer, every time I've tried for the past week to download it, it trudges along at 4K/s - 30K/s and eventually ends up stopping completely after about 50MB or so. I guess everyone is trying to grab the Etch netinst ISO.

Update: Today's Testing NetInst ISO just completed and I was able to do a complete installation. I hope the SATA support makes it into the final release this time around.


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