Alright, After a few days of testing, kicking my chair, etc. I finally got the solution to this problem. I had to use the Patch install CD and add the command line "mem=2000M" on startup. This seems to be the same issue several others are having with 64bit machines and SuSe installer. After that everything went smoothly. Except for the switching of CD to DVD and back again about 30+ times. What a time waster that was. Hope this helps someone else out. Thank you, Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:46, Brad Dameron wrote:

I know the Adaptec ZCR does not work correctly under 2.6 kernel without patches. But the LSI ZCR uses the same driver as their high-end card's. And yes I have about a dozen of the MegaRAID 320-2X's as well. They install just fine. But I didn't want to waste one on this machine when I could spend a little more to get the full Raid with just the ZCR.

Thanks for the info tho,

Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Mixon (qwest)" To: "suse amd64 mailing list" Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:06 AM Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] Tyan S4882 with LSI MegaRAID 320-0 SuSe 9.2 install.

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Not sure if its relevant, but I believe the Adaptec and LSI zero-channel RAID cards conform to a similar standard. Our experience is that even after many attempts, the Adaptec zero-channel ("-0") RAID cards have not worked in either SuSE SLES8 or SLES9. Not sure about SuSE Pro 9.x.

With that much invested in a motherboard, you probably want a full single/dual channel RAID card anyway. The zero-channel cards sometimes have less RAM on board and a slower processor. But the price of $200 versus $400-$600 is quite seductive at first. Now if you were on Windows, that would be a different thing - it work work.

From another post, it appears this may not be your problem, but wanted to be sure you were aware of the downsides to the zero-channel RAID cards.

- Richard

Brad Dameron wrote:

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I have a quad opteron using the Tyan S4882 motherboard with 16gb memory, a LSI MegaRAID 320-0 ZCR raid card, and 8-73 gb SCSI drives. During the initial install it get's to "Probing for hard disk controllers" and just hangs indefinately. Now I know this works with the 320-2X's on dual Opteron's and the driver is the exact same for the 320-0. Anyone else using this configuration? I am going to try the Patch install CD and see if that works but wanted to see if anyone else has worked around this problem as well.

Thank you, Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

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