On 8/18/06, Nadeem M. Khan nadeem.m.khan@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/19/06, Harsh Busa harsh.busa@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/18/06, Nadeem M. Khan nadeem.m.khan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
I am trying to install RHEL AS 3 on IBM xSeries 346, but it fails to detect my hard disks. It fails to get a driver for Adaptec SCSI controller. Cribs about aic7xxx.
chk for certification of RHEL 3 on that specific model of x346. You should be able to get some how / patches from IBM site
Well thanks for the info. Fortunately I managed to get hold of the .img.gz file off the net. Unfortunately, I am not able to gunzip it.
# gunzip aic79xx-2.0.10-i386-rhel3.img.gz
gunzip: aic79xx-2.0.10-i386-rhel3.img.gz: not in gzip format
# file aic79xx-2.0.10-i386-rhel3.img.gz
aic79xx-2.0.10-i386-rhel3.img.gz: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c, OEM-ID " mkdosfs", root entries 224, sectors 2880 (volumes <=32 MB) , sectors/FAT 9, serial number 0x40774d07, label: " ", FAT (12 bit) #
use file cmd to see wat fformat is that file . if its an disk image file then use dd if=filename of=/dev/fd0 and then use it to load the drivers ... if u use windows there are tools like rawrite to help u
I dd'ed it as it is to the floppy and tried to use it at install time, but it failed to load. "Failed to load driver from /dev/fd0".
Regards, NMK.