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There are many different adapters and drivers, if you would have to choose, what would be the most popular SCSI/SAS controller model to support? What server class hardware is the most popular in your area, the most available and reasonably priced? If we would add support for one or two controllers, which ones would they be?

Please share your experience and opinion

it reminds me of the topic about USB UPSes sorry for my pessimism

At the very least, support the megaraid, megaraid_sas drivers and 3ware drivers.

They will cover most SCSI/SAS RAID controllers available. For example, almost all Dell PERC SCSI controllers use the megaraid drivers, and all the Dell PERC SAS (eg. 6/6i) controllers use the megaraid_sas drivers, and HP use LSI controllers which also use the megaraid drivers. The next most common one I know of and have seen is the 3ware cards, which are quite often used in custom, home-made or industrial chassis. These are very mature, stable drivers and should pose no problems.

Suport for megaraid.ko and ahci.ko would be nice.

If deploying x86 hardware we always use Dell or Axiomtech and this will cover both of them.

Support for Intel SATA for CDROM installs would be helpful. Currently if you boot the ISO image on an x86 system with Intel chipset/SATA and SATA DVD drive, it gives a 'FATAL ERROR: no CD-ROM found', although it does show 'Found hard drive as SATA 0' so its loading the controller, but currently seems to only support IDE CDROM drives. Motherboards don't come with IDE controllers anymore!

Loading drivers

Looking for harddrives...

Found harddrive as SATA 0

FATAL ERROR: no CD-ROM found
Press ENTER to reboot

Router OS v4.5 ISO IMAGE
DVDRW SATA DRIVE

ahci.ko should fix the issue with sata cd-roms.

Smart array 5i Plus

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Integrated scsi adapter proliant G servers.

HP SmartArray
3Ware
Areca

LSI Logic® LSISAS 1068

fujitsu siemens blade servers

magaraid for dell servers please

cciss and hpsa for HP SmartArray please!

cciss and hpsa for HP SmartArray please!

New information the scsi support? Start Implement ros5 ?

What's the status of SATA support in v5? hard disk and cdrom support?

Support for the VMWare SCSI drivers would be nice.

We added some SCSI drivers in v5beta2, can somebody please test with a demo key or 24h trial?

Any info on which drivers ??

3w-9xxx
arcmsr
megaraid

but I can't say they work 100%, please test if you have a device

So...

3-Wire
VMWare
Dell SATA/ SAS

K...

I have a 2950 laying arround...

I will scrounge up some memory for it (I raided it for my 2900) and see if she loads up..
(Tonight if all goes well....)

We added some SCSI drivers in v5beta2, can somebody please test with a demo key or 24h trial?
3w-9xxx
arcmsr
megaraid

Please include driver for SCSI adapter 'Adaptec aic7899' (Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers)
I have a lot of this servers.
I PROMISE to test this release and send the FULL test report

Thnx

I have this server:

4 x Dell PowerEdge 750
4 x Dell PowerEdge 850
4 x Dell PowerEdge 1750
2 x Dell PowerEdge 1850
3 x Dell PowerEdge 2950
2 x Dell PowerEdge R310

I would like to run Mikrotik Router OS on these servers all with DELL Perc RAID controller.
It is very important for me to have raid support in router os.

I hope you insert this feature in the next release....

There are many different adapters and drivers, if you would have to choose, what would be the most popular SCSI/SAS controller model to support? What server class hardware is the most popular in your area, the most available and reasonably priced? If we would add support for one or two controllers, which ones would they be?

Please share your experience and opinion

The Dell Perc6i cards use megaraid.ko not sure about the older servers, the oldest any of our clients have is 2950.

another vote for the HP smart array series..

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller /PERC/

HP Smart Array 5i, please.

did you miss my post about added SCSI drivers?

please somebody test

My Dell 2950 Got Shanghighed for a remote access server...

Testing with VMWare 4.0Rev1

Under VMWare 4.X ...

SCSI drivers fail (also paravirtual)..

IDE mode loads fine...

do Vmware virtual scsi use one of named drivers?

Could we have the drivers included for the lenovo thinkserver

this seems to use the LSI SAS1064E controller which i can only assume is not supported as of yet, or if it is the driver do not seem to work,

I have tried to install using netinstall and using the 5.2beta.iso,

Netinstall - crashes with the error no harddrives found FATAL ERROR

The ISO - Crashes before it actually loads any drivers or looks for HDD's

Many thanks

Does anyone actually care about SCSI support? All I see here is requests, but nobody has tested the drivers we included by popular demand ...

I no longer have an open server with the supported hardware..

We are a HP shop...

I HAD a couple of Dells (2900 and 2950) but they got shnagged before I could load them...

The 2900 ended up at my house as my VMWare host, and the 2950 ended up as a remote access server (term Serv) for work...

HP SCSI / SAS / SATA array adapters I can test...

Does anyone actually care about SCSI support? All I see here is requests, but nobody has tested the drivers we included by popular demand ...

I can test HP Smart array 5i

Does anyone actually care about SCSI support? All I see here is requests, but nobody has tested the drivers we included by popular demand ...

It took me a while to find a server recently that actually was able to boot RouterOS. Most of the devices I would want to install RouterOS on are HP servers, and they all run some sort of SAS.

I will test the arcmsr driver on Monday, I have 1 spare server lying around with ARC-1210 card in it.

Did anyone test the drivers?, I do not have available Dell servers so I can't test but Normis is right it appears nobody is testing so far

Hiya all,

Sorry to sound like a Novice but i have a question.

We have just purchased a Dell Server it has a 146GB SAS drive.

When i try and install RouterOS 4.10 or 5.0 beta3

It errors with:

"FATAL ERROR: no harddrives found"

i am using the ISO from the full package

any ideas.

Thanks

I forgot to report back here.

My server is a Tyan S5211 barebone with ARC-1210, installer was able to detect the RAID card and it installed properly without any issue/error.

Hiya All,

Just wondering if there was any updates on my question about the SAS drive please.

Regards

PLs drv. suport for HP Smart array 5i

Hiya All,

Just wondering if there was any updates on my question about the SAS drive please.

Regards

we could only add the drivers I listed above. If your device doesn't work, I can't help, sorry.

I forgot to report back here.

My server is a Tyan S5211 barebone with ARC-1210, installer was able to detect the RAID card and it installed properly without any issue/error.

I read that's it's a PCIe->SATA converter. This topic is about SCSI. Are you sure?

Dell PowerEdge R610


Loading drivers...
looking for harddrives
FATAL ERRO no harddrivers found

Loading drivers...
looking for harddrives
FATAL ERRO no harddrivers found

please be detailed about what hardware exactly you are trying out, and what driver you thing this hardware will use.

please be detailed about what hardware exactly you are trying out, and what driver you thing this hardware will use.

Dell PowerEdge R610
Placa Controladora PERC 6/i SAS RAID, 2x4 Conectores internos, 256MB Cache

please be detailed about what hardware exactly you are trying out, and what driver you thing this hardware will use.

I use HP ML370 with SCSI adapter

Hp smartarray 200i

HP Raid support would be great; we have just been investigating the PCI-e sata CF card option for
two new HP DL380's so for us HP/Array support would be fantastic!

so nobody actually has the previously requested

3w-9xxx (3Ware)
arcmsr (Areca)
megaraid (for Dell servers)

which we already support ?

HP Raid support would be great; we have just been investigating the PCI-e sata CF card option for
two new HP DL380's so for us HP/Array support would be fantastic!

HP Raid support would be nice

I think it is not a good way that mikrotik wants everyone request their drivers before releasing major version but after that they simply says not supported .
We can see there are a lot of driver requests every day . i suggest two ways to overcome such problems . The driver support should not limit only to pre major versions time .

1- There should be at least an API for other developers to release their own drivers.
2- Mikrotik release some driver files independently from mikrotik minor versions and users may download them from mikrotik site and simply upload it to RouterOS .

Thanks Normis
Dell 2950 with sas raid it is working

Resources PCI
Device Vendor Name
- 11:0d.0 ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev: 2)
- 0b:00.1 Intel Corporation 82575GB Gigabit Network Connection (rev: 2)
- 0b:00.0 Intel Corporation 82575GB Gigabit Network Connection (rev: 2)
- 0a:00.1 Intel Corporation 82575GB Gigabit Network Connection (rev: 2)
- 0a:00.0 Intel Corporation 82575GB Gigabit Network Connection (rev: 2)
- 09:04.0 Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES12N3A PCI Express Switch (rev: 14)
- 09:02.0 Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES12N3A PCI Express Switch (rev: 14)
- 08:00.0 Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES12N3A PCI Express Switch (rev: 14)
- 07:00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev: 18)
- 06:00.0 Broadcom EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev: 195)
- 05:01.0 Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E2 (rev: 1)
- 05:00.0 Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E1 (rev: 1)
- 04:00.3 Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev: 1)
- 04:00.0 Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Upstream Port (rev: 1)
- 03:00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev: 18)
- 02:00.0 Broadcom EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev: 195)
- 01:00.0 LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 (rev: 4)
- 00:1f.1 Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller (rev: 9)
- 00:1f.0 Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev: 9)
- 00:1e.0 Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev: 217)
- 00:1d.7 Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset EHCI USB2 Controller (rev: 9)
- 00:1d.2 Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #3 (rev: 9)
- 00:1d.1 Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #2 (rev: 9)
- 00:1d.0 Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #1 (rev: 9)
- 00:1c.0 Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev: 9)
- 00:16.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers (rev: 18)
- 00:15.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers (rev: 18)
- 00:13.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers (rev: 18)
- 00:11.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers (rev: 18)
- 00:10.2 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers (rev: 18)
- 00:10.1 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers (rev: 18)
- 00:10.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers (rev: 18)
- 00:07.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 7 (rev: 18)
- 00:06.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 6-7 (rev: 18)
- 00:05.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 5 (rev: 18)
- 00:04.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 4-5 (rev: 18)
- 00:03.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 3 (rev: 18)
- 00:02.0 Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 2 (rev: 18)
- 00:00.0 Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev

Resources USB
Device Vendor Name Serial Number Speed
- 4:1 UHCI Host Controller 0000:00:1d.2 12 Mbps
- 3:1 UHCI Host Controller 0000:00:1d.1 12 Mbps
- 3:2 Logitech USB Receiver 1.5 Mbps
- 2:1 UHCI Host Controller 0000:00:1d.0 12 Mbps
- 1:1 EHCI Host Controller 0000:00:1d.7 480 Mbps
- 1:2 480 Mbps
- 1:5 Dell DRAC5 0000000 12 Mbps
- 1:6 DELL INC. DRAC5 VIRTUAL MEDIA 1028 123456 480 Mbps
- 1:4 480 Mbps

Stores Disk
Name Total Space Free Space Status
- usb1 #<kbytes># #<kbytes># ready
- usb2 #<kbytes># #<kbytes># formatting...

Many Thanks again

I have installed RouterOS 5.0beta4 in a IBM x3200 M2 succesfully.
Everything is working fine. Uptime 20hrs with a usermanager authenticating 100 users.
Thanks!

thank you for the reports, much appreciated! it would be great if you could post the controller models in our wiki

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Supported ... .2FRAID.29

I have a Cisco C200 or 210 comming as a lab play thing..

They run the LSISAS1064e Lets see if it runs !!!


And YES I WILL be taking pictures !!!

Is there any news regarding HP's cciss driver? Is it supported, or will it be supported?

We have lots of HP servers that need cciss (smart array) driver

cciss, aac and ips support will be very nice. aac is Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver (IBM ServeRAID 8i/k/s).

Please,

Add these scsi drivers, we have a bunch of hp servers, and i´m curretly running mikrotik on these via USB, but i´m afraid about kingston thumb drive reliability. and these servers only have that storage controller that doesnt have legacy mode.

http://cciss.sourceforge.net/

Smart Array E200i (SAS Controller) (rev: 0)

ppl with DELL servers .. i'm trying a new RoS pre release that supports HP SAS Controller.(Smart Array)

i created via controler a Logical drive but mikrotik doesnt recognized it. ppl with dell megaraid controller , what you did to have the disk recognized in mikrotik?

with the drivers, i shouldnt have problem with any kind of raid i did, becouse the Operational system will see the logical drives created in SaS controller as an physical disk.

We have about 30 Hp servers and 12 of them are these big ml350 servers with that controller. these where bought to be our core routers. 2gbits internet feed

We added some SCSI drivers in v5beta2, can somebody please test with a demo key or 24h trial?
3w-9xxx
arcmsr
megaraid

Please include driver for SCSI adapter 'Adaptec aic7899' (Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers)
I have a lot of this servers.
I PROMISE to test this release and send the FULL test report

Thnx

I just tried V5.0rc1 on my PowerEdge 2650. I'm loading from a CD created using the .iso image. The install cannot find the hard drive. I tried with the controller in SCSI mode ( and formatted the drive ) and in RAID mode ( formatting the drive, and creating a container. ) No joy either way.

Is there another version I should try ?

Thanks,

Todd

Tested V5.0rc1 on DL380 G3. Controller not recognized.

I saw the 5i controller is not supported right now.
Is there any time-line to have support for HP Smart Array 5i controller?

We are trying to run some fiber gige in a reliable platform. We do need some popular scsi controller support of HP in Mikrotik.

Also, adding DELL and IBM scsi controllers won't hurt.

Thank you.

All we can do, is include the standard driver. If it doesn't work, we can't do much.

All we can do, is include the standard driver. If it doesn't work, we can't do much.

Hi normis.

Based on a quick count from everyony posting in this thread I'd say the next driver for inclusion should likely be the cciss driver.

I have hardware on hand to test that with.

Regardt

as i posted before, o have an hp that should have work with the ciss driver like any other linux, and tested the pre-release version and it did not worked .. doesnt recognize the Virtual drive.

We have also lots of HP Proliant Servers with Smart Array Controllers inside.

If you need some tryouts or drivertests for the Smart Array Series we can help out with some time and hardware (-:

Today I am at a school with abaout 4500 pupils to implement traffic optimization on base of mikrotik but the server is a DL360 with Smart Array *grrr*

Yours, Martin

we too have a lot of ml 350 with smart arrays. now i´m using USB STICK to run mikrotik on it.

OK, then please consider including cciss driver in your next v5 rc.

HP Smart Array 6i drivers.... pls...

If you haven't drivers includes, include a way that can we add user drivers to MK...

Hello,

I've tried the 5.0rc5 on vmware using both the LSI and Bus Logic SCSI adapters and no luck 'can't find harddisk'. Maybe it doesn't have these drivers in this release. The version you mention above is an earlier beta release. If you think this one has a SCSI adapter please send a link to it and I'll gladly download and test.

Cheers

Danny

5.0rc10 not working on dell poweredge 2650 with megaraid ( hdd not found )

5.0rc10 not working on dell poweredge 2650 with megaraid ( hdd not found )

did it work ever before with RouterOS?

Got a Dell PowerEdge 2850 at work, Doesn't understand the Dell PERC 4 card in it. (VID=0x1028, DID=0x0013)

I have a 3 Ware 9650se unit kicking around at work recently, I'll plug it in with a few 80gb hdds and see what it finds.

For the record, this server seems to like the 4GB SB stick I used to boot it.

Is there any thought to iSCSI? Seems it would be less problematic since it's software. And it's a standard. And cheaper overall for an administrator to manage/maintain.

I use a managed array system. So this would be optimal.
It's nice to be able to extend my space as needed, create snapshots if required.. and oh yea.. get the FBI off my back when they have a CALEA request by giving them a snapshot copy off of the array.

so ... mikrotik v5.0 will have scsi support in the end or not ???? or at least for my servers ( dell poweredge 2650 and 2850 ) both with megaraid...

do you know when v5.0 will be finish and stable ???

TNX ... MIKROTIK IS THE BEST!

any news about porting the CCISS driver?

for the the archive: the linux driver is backward compatible to ALL HP SmartArray controller.
There generic driver would work with SA6xx, SA 5i, SA 6i SCSI controller as well as
SA E200(i), P400/P410i.
If the driver is not many years old, it would support also P600 and P800 controllers (however, i'm sure you will not pay that extra fee for a router...)

So, please include the driver (if it's not already included in ROS 5.0). That will allow use to use a refurbished dual-xeon, hot swap HDD, hot swap power supply for few hundred bucks!
ps: what eats few hundred watts...

HP DL380G3 (SA5i) just tested: netinstall did not found the raid volume
we also tried to net-install to USB drive, worked well (however cannot boot, since BIOS has no option for USB boot (?))
That mean HP DL380G3 completely unusable for Mikrotik (it has no internal power connector for standard devices, so SATA/Flash cannot work)

try to install on another computer. I was just setting up a new router, NetInstall didn't see my USB Flash. I connected it to another motherboard, installed there - and then my main platform successfully booted up from that flash. NetInstall uses limited set of drivers

as i said, install is completed well, but DL380G3 unable to boot from USB (only virtual USB drive via ILO). I will try to boot the installed stick on another box

ps: what if I:
- netinstall the machine to a supported platform
- use Knoppix (or other live system) to mount the rootfs
- copy the x86 binary of the cciss driver (from a same kernel version)

would it boot? maybe someone did it? (what keeps away Mikrotik to make package like binary of common raid drivers?)

as i said, install is completed well, but DL380G3 unable to boot from USB

I mean, install to HDD, not USB Flash

hmmm... i think, it can load initrd, but without ccisss driver cannot mount the rootfs

i will give a try for install to desktop PC (ide/sata), and dd over network to server by live linux.
would report the results

anybody tried install routeros on SCSI SCA80 drives?

Can anybody can add driver for dell PE1750, old and popular scsi controller.

Or maybe someone knew how to install mikrotik on this server ????

Please help.

Good morning, you can install RouterOS on an HP RAID Controller onboard 5i SmartArray and DELL POWEREDGE 2650, a greeting.

to a HP SmartArray 5i? how?

+1 to cciss (HP Smart Array)

By the way, I've found a way to boot from USB on servers that doesn't support it - like HP G3. You have to create a custom boot manager on CD, which boots USB drive afterwards - it sound complicated, but really isn't - I have several of those servers running without any problems.

By the way, when Radius server (with Userman) is run from USB drive, there are many problems - timeouts and so on. Which is one of the reasons we desperately need cciss drivers. Please at least announce your intentions - will such a driver be available at some point in time or not.

I have Dell PowerEdge 850 and I get also error "FATAL ERROR: no harddrives found" while installing mikrotik 4.17

jjx: try to install ROS5 (preferably latest)
trol4o: HP G3 cannot boot from USB. (BIOS not support is) yes, it can be booted from CD (and from CD, probably USB drive can be asked for boot as rootfs) but, i think
it does not worth the work (and have many additional failure points, like CD and USB).

I've just take some math, and if you need to pay for power, it's much better to have a brand new intel 1U server, that have a G3 server. (intel entry servers eats 1/3 of the power as HP G3 servers - and i think double CPU power, even with core i3)

wpeople:

I don't have to pay for power anywhere, so G3 is a good choice. About booting from CD, then USB - it's very simple once you get the hang of it, I've prepared an ISO image for that task, simply burn it to CD and off it goes.

Anyway, the only time the CD is used is at boot time. I have several of those servers working for a long time and never had any problems.

Still waiting for SCSI driver though

Dear

PorwerEdge bought a Dell R710 with the following settings:

-01 Intel ® Xeon ® 5500 series Dual Core;

- Intel-5520;

- PERC 6i RAID Controller and SAS 6/iR;

-02 SAS HDD 250GB 1500rpm in RAID 1;

-Memory-8GB DDR3-1333;

-Card-Network Interface Broadcom ® NetXtreme ® II 57.711 two-door, direct connection, 10 Gbit Ethernet and PCI-Express and flush iSCSI TOE

But when trying to install the new RouterOS v5.7 Stable during the installation of the error: "FATAL ERROR: No hard disk"

We are very concerned because this router is the edge of our network, and have millions of customers who are depending on this change.
We are customers for a long time and ask the MikroTik verify that an immediate solution to this problem.

Here you can find models of controllers used by Dell in order to streamline the process for the new update with the correctness of the MikroTik:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topi ... =en&cs=555


Does anyone have any suggestions of what can be done? Ja I disabled the RAID setup Dell put the same error persists.

Please help me!

try to install ROS on another machine, then boot ready system on this platform

Befor I splash out to buy some surplus Dell PowerEdge 1850 with 2 x 146GB SCSI Hard Drives and Integrated Raid (PERC4) with 256mb Cache, does anyone know if ROS is likley to see the drives?

Also if the GigEther drivers will allow L2MTUs greater than 1500 ?

HP DL360 G4p works great....

Keep in mind this is a SATA model... so,,,,

But it sees the onboard NICs and hardware just fine....

I added a 2nd supply and CPU and a 4 port broadcom 64Bit PCI and it is stable as a rock...

These are inexpensive and not too hard to find...

Please, will support SAS 1068 (LSI) - in Dell M610?
Thanks Tom

Is there any chance for adding support for Inter raid and Adaptec raid. I have just install MtOS 5.11 on supermicro ATOM based and it have both Inter and Adaptec raid on but I cannot use it because mikrotik does not recognize raid volume.

it would be great to have 2 SAS disks on raid for security reasons

I tried to install version 5.14 on my Dell PowerEdge R610.
Try installing from CD-ROM.
Try to install via USB.
Try installing using NetInstall.
In all these ways failed to install the system.

Remove the HD I put in a common PC, install the system and when I put the HD in my DELL R610 system remains in "LOADING".

Install version 5.11 and is equal, the system remains in "LOADING".

Any suggestions?

I installed the system on a Flash Memory (USB) and the place my DELL R610, boot and OS system: rip well but does not detect the disks but if you see the Dell SAS controller.

If I do the same with the HD system will not boot, stays in LOADING.

Attachment system images installed on USB flash memory in the Dell R610.

For god sake please make an x86 driver for intel C202 chipset, thanks!

I would agree with the megaraid.. I would say that 8 out of 10 servers that I order or build include an LSI controller.

On that note, most of them are being deployed for VMWare ESXi now. It makes management MUCH simpler and makes better use of resources. I would personally like to see the RouterOS for x86 have a vmware tools package before SAS/SCSI support.

Hello mikrotik has support for PERC h330 SAS?

Hello mikrotik has support for PERC h330 SAS?

i have tried and it is not supported..
anyone can hack it?

Hi guys

looks like perc6/e also not supported .. i am trying to install from v6 up to v7 images via usb pendrive on a disk raid0 on perc6/e controller on a Dell R710.. and it allways get stuck on FATAL ERROR no CD-ROM found..