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Re: Problems with driver disk

To: Bernd Birkholz <opensystems@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Problems with driver disk
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 16 Sep 2001 17:27:21 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Organization: Linuxcare, Inc.
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>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Birkholz <opensystems@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Bernd> Hello, I did want to use xfs on my new server system because I
Bernd> learnt to appreciate this filesystem under IRIX. So I
Bernd> downloaded your installer iso image and burnt it on CD. Since
Bernd> the RAID driver in RedHat 7.1 for my RAID-Controller was
Bernd> corrupt I got a driver disk. This one was working correctly
Bernd> with RedHat's original install CD. After using your installer
Bernd> CD in expert mode with driver disk I got unfortunately the
Bernd> following error. After choosing "custom installation" this
Bernd> message occurs:

Bernd> No Drives Found An error has occured - no valid devices were
Bernd> found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your
Bernd> hardware for the cause of this problem.

Well. You can't use a device driver compiled against Red Hat's kernel.

Which RAID controller are you using?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.linuxcare.com/
SGI XFS for Linux Developer, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/


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