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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:45:14 -0000 DAVID BROOK wrote:
... has anyone managed this??? Running suse 9.1 64 bit on Opteron based server and am attempting to add two mirrored sata discs. Have downloaded the Highpoint drivers but am having difficulty with the install. The drivers come down as .img files and the documentation suggests I unpack them with dd to make a driver diskette. On doing so however, the dd fails after 1840 of the 1880 input records - I think due to the floppy disc being full (but I am not sure). I've tried to dd to a hard disc directory structure using a similar command, (dd if= ...., of= .....) but this has failed to work correctly and has created a binary file rather than one with a directory structure. Can someone give me a clue how to me move forward - either how to get dd to span diskettes or how to get dd to unpack the .img file in a useful form. I've tried googling, tried to contact highpoint etc. to no avail. Thanks David
Can't help on the SATA side of things, but... I've just downloaded the files myself. Me thinks you need either a new floppy or a new drive. The images are the standard 1.5Mbish so they should fit nicely on a disk using dd. You can, if you want, get inside the .img file to see what's going on: # mkdir /media/loopmount # mount -t ext2 susedd9.img -o loop /media/loopmount # ls /media/loopmount # umount -d /media/loopmount BTW, the "-d" is important if you intend on doing this regularly (you can do the same thing with .iso images). Since it looks like this is one of those "manufacturer driver disks" that SuSE asks for on installation. Here's a thought for you: If you can't get it onto a floppy, for whatever reason, you could try cheating using the above method. If you have a USB-pendrive/keyring handy then try popping the .img file (or extracting the files) onto it. When SuSE asks for your driver floppy, this is where we try cheating. If you copied the .img file to your USB stick, then mount the USB stick and them loopmount (as above) the .img file, but use /media/floppy instead of /media/loopmount. If you copied the contents of the .img file onto your USB stick, then try mounting the USB stick with the mountpoint of /media/floppy. Certainly Mandrake has been fooled on installation by methods such as this. I would try different floppies first, though. Hope this helps. Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.