Install on SATA RAID on Gigabyte GA-K8N motherboard.

gmarquez_at_indyme.com
Date: 08/03/05 

Date: 3 Aug 2005 10:39:33 -0700

I have been trying to install Redhat Linux on either of the SATA
controllers for this Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI motherboard but none are
recognizing my hard disks or the RAID controller. I have installed
Win2K3 on another one of these mobos without any issues but I would
like to install Redhat Linux 8.0 on another since it uses a faster SATA
II controller via Silicon Image (SiI 3114) controller. I have a current
Linux RH 8.0 production server that is not fault-tolerance that I need
to migrate to a RAID system.

I downloaded the beta drivers from controller's website:
http://www.siliconimage.com/support/downloadcenter.aspx

I used "SiI 3114" from the drop-down menu and downloaded the linux
drivers from top down for 64-bit AMD. The drivers that seems to be
correct is the:

Driver 12/1/2004 9250 KB SiI3114: Serial ATA (SATA) 64-bit Linux
RAID Driver - Beta ZIP download.

Extracted all files and I followed all the documentation for Linux RH
8.0 "new install". It instructs to use "linux dd" during boot of RH
CD1, it attempts to load drivers but during Disk Partitioning Setup
from the options of:

     "Automatically Partition",
     "Manually partition with Disk Druid",
     "Manually partition with fdisk (experts only)"

I choose "Automatically Partition" and everytime I select NEXT, I get
the following error:

    --| No Drives Found |--
An error has occurred - no valid devices were found on
which to create new file systems. Please check your
hardware for the cause of this problem.
          OK

Driver Info:
    [SiI SATARaid Linux device driver ver 1.0.0.20 Release]

    Driver Files IMG: [distribution]sii6514.img
    Driver Files TGZ: [distribution]sii6514_rhdd.tgz
    Driver Dates: 11/06/03

    Features:
    1. Support RedHat 7.3/8.0/9.0 and SuSE 8.1/8.2

I did created Floppy (drivers) with the following:
dd if=redhat_sii6514.img of=/dev/fd0

I am suspecting error/issue with driver disk although it seems to try
to load drivers and displays:

---------------------------
--| Loading |--
Loading sii6514 drivers...
---------------------------

After specifying "linux dd" or "linux expert" this Loading of driver
occurs about 2 times but probably doesn't load correctly or just
doesn't work when attempting to partition the drive/RAID array.

Has anyone been able to get around this or been able to load RH Linux
on any controller using SATA II (300 mbps) controller???

Please respond if you've experienced any of this or gotten passed this
point that I'm currently stuck on. Any help is appreciated.

-Regards,

Gibran
gmarquez@indyme.com

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