dell 8400 install prob

[Robin Becker]

David Kelly wrote:
> 
> On Aug 15, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker wrote:
> 
>> Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't 
>> have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on 
>> freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes
> 
> 
> I didn't *install* on my SATA drives on Dell PowerEdge 400SC, but 
> FreeBSD 5.2.1 didn't have any issues with them. Brought them up fresh 
> out of their antistatic bags with the 5.2.1 installer CDROM.
> 
> Don't believe I'm having any issues with the *drives* but vinum doesn't 
> always remember their striped volume configuration between boots.
> 
> Not sure how similar the 400SC is to your 8400. The 400SC does not have 
> ATA RAID on the motherboard.

I have a BIOS option that converts the SATA operation from either ACPI/RAID 
through ATA/RAID or COMBINED, things seem better when I use COMBINED (which I 
think means PATA/SATA). Anyone know what these things really mean? Changing from 
ATA/RAID to combined doesn't seem to hurt XP, and allows KNOPPIX to see the hard 
disk whilst freeBSD 4.10 seems to see the hard disk now. Do I dare attempt an 
install?
-- 
Robin Becker