I have an HP Proliant ML330 - fresh from the factory and low and behold, they have swapped out standard IDE Controllers with some funky on-board IDE RAID Controller (Ultra ATA IDE 100) that apparently doesnt work with anything but RHE or RH9 or RH8...... And even then, the documentation is lacking......
Apparently, HP doesnt support anything but 2.4.x kernels.... and it looks like no one has worked on these drivers for quite a while... Linux doesnt detect these drives until you go through a rather convoluted hack to get the drivers into the install boot system - so it can see the drives - so it can install the software on those drives....
My only other alternative (so far) is to put in $29 PCI Bus Ultra IDE Controllers and bypass the HP stuff... (Hey HP, do you guys follow this list? Things like this make me less and less inclined to use HP.....) My employers would rather not go the additional card route - so I am stuck with lurking on this list trying to get some insight from someone who has been successful with this configuration.... So far, no luck.....
So, if anyone has any experience with this configuration, could you please drop me a line and give me some insight?
TIA
WPH