Got a friend with a server-class machine who uses it as a glorified jukebox, mostly. *shakes head* He makes me sick.
Anyway, here's his hardware:
925X chipset, ICH6 or 6R, 1 gig of ddr2 ram, The SATA includes one ultra DMA 66/100 IDE, Via 6410 Raid controller with two Ultra DMA controllers, MSI 7053 ATX AKA 925x Neo (motherboard), Broadcom BCM5751 GB LAN, Intel 82562 EX 100 MBs LAN, six 80g hard drives (four SATAs, two IDEs), azalia c-media 9880, Nvidia FX video card
His problem: I got him to try installing mepis with the latest livecd and everything and by all rights, it should have worked the same as it was for me when I first tested my own cd on it when I had physical access to the machine. Problem was, Mepis wouldn't access the RAID array (raid 0) and the system wouldn't even look at the ide drives (which are on the via controller), even though all of this crap was showing up on dmesg and boot messages. Long story short, he was gonna move back to winXP for a bit but fried it. Wiped the whole raid.
He's now got SuSE 10 on the machine and it's reading all of the SATA drives as four seperate physical drives with no access whatsoever to the IDE drives. I think I already know the answer but I just want to be confirmed: what would you do in this instance to make sure SuSE can use everything on the machine and read the four SATAs as raid?
Also, he mentioned his nvidia card not really running all that great, just really slow performance. I'm gonna be pointing him to this post so he can watch it for himself, so go easy on the newb. :P
For that matter, go easy on me, lol. I've never used SuSE. I'm a gentoo man myself and would have handled that whole install differently. And dude, I know you're gonna read this: I want one of them 80g's. Y'know, lighten the burden on ya of having so much space. ;)
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Anyway, here's his hardware:
925X chipset, ICH6 or 6R, 1 gig of ddr2 ram, The SATA includes one ultra DMA 66/100 IDE, Via 6410 Raid controller with two Ultra DMA controllers, MSI 7053 ATX AKA 925x Neo (motherboard), Broadcom BCM5751 GB LAN, Intel 82562 EX 100 MBs LAN, six 80g hard drives (four SATAs, two IDEs), azalia c-media 9880, Nvidia FX video card
His problem: I got him to try installing mepis with the latest livecd and everything and by all rights, it should have worked the same as it was for me when I first tested my own cd on it when I had physical access to the machine. Problem was, Mepis wouldn't access the RAID array (raid 0) and the system wouldn't even look at the ide drives (which are on the via controller), even though all of this crap was showing up on dmesg and boot messages. Long story short, he was gonna move back to winXP for a bit but fried it. Wiped the whole raid.
He's now got SuSE 10 on the machine and it's reading all of the SATA drives as four seperate physical drives with no access whatsoever to the IDE drives. I think I already know the answer but I just want to be confirmed: what would you do in this instance to make sure SuSE can use everything on the machine and read the four SATAs as raid?
Also, he mentioned his nvidia card not really running all that great, just really slow performance. I'm gonna be pointing him to this post so he can watch it for himself, so go easy on the newb. :P
For that matter, go easy on me, lol. I've never used SuSE. I'm a gentoo man myself and would have handled that whole install differently. And dude, I know you're gonna read this: I want one of them 80g's. Y'know, lighten the burden on ya of having so much space. ;)
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