November 2003 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SUSE 64-bit + 3ware controller = Corrupt filesystem
by Michael Madore 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Hi, I am seeing filesystem corruption when attempting to test a 3ware SATA raid adapter with SUSE 9.0 professional 64-bit. In particular, if I mount the array and then copy a bunch of files from the root filesystem (which is on a standard IDE drive) random files _on the root filesystem_ get corrupted. This happens with both the driver shipped on the DVD and the latest driver from 3ware. I also tested with both ext3 and Reiserfs. Can anyone verify that the 3ware adapter is working with this release? This is on a Tyan K8W board. Mike

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by miandoabi 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Bitte meine Name aus dem Liste löschen -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: JPF [mailto:jonpall@hallo.is] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. November 2003 11:47 An: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Betreff: [suse-amd64] Opteron MSI K8T800 crashing with SP3 Hello, After upgrading to SLES8 SP3 AMD64 I started experiencing random lockups. The whole system freezes with no warning or messages. I also am unable to start up normally, acpi=oldboot doesnt work and the only way to start the system is to disable acpi completely, otherwise it freezes immedaitely with a blank screen when it tries to load the kernel from grub. Dual Opteron 240, DELL PERC 4/SC RAID controller, using driver megaraid2 , 2GB DDR memory, Details of motherboard here: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp? model=K8T_Master2-FAR All extra settings are disabled in the BIOS. This is important and potenitally major, I'm running on 2.4.19 that I manually installed now but need a solution to this problem. -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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by miandoabi 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Bitte meine Name aus dem liste löschen Mit freundlichen Grüßen miandoabi

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Opteron MSI K8T800 crashing with SP3
by JPF 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Hello, After upgrading to SLES8 SP3 AMD64 I started experiencing random lockups. The whole system freezes with no warning or messages. I also am unable to start up normally, acpi=oldboot doesnt work and the only way to start the system is to disable acpi completely, otherwise it freezes immedaitely with a blank screen when it tries to load the kernel from grub. Dual Opteron 240, DELL PERC 4/SC RAID controller, using driver megaraid2 , 2GB DDR memory, Details of motherboard here: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp? model=K8T_Master2-FAR All extra settings are disabled in the BIOS. This is important and potenitally major, I'm running on 2.4.19 that I manually installed now but need a solution to this problem.

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SP3 Kernel issue for SLES 8
by Bedard, Joe 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

I have SLES8 ofr AMD64 running with Oracle 9i R2 (32-bit production). It has been running flawlessly. After updating from SP2 to SP3, I could not startup Oracle. Oracle reported the following: ORA-27123: unable to attach to shared memory segment Linux Error: 22: Invalid argument After exhausting all the known Oracle Metalink remedies for this issue, I came to the conclustion that the new 2.4.21 kernel was not presenting a shared memory environment that Oracle can agree with. I backed off the kernel from the SP3 kernel (k_smp-2.4.21-143) to the k_smp-2.4.19-256 kernel. With that change, Oracle starts normally. Any insight? Am I missing the bus or is there an issue here? Thanks Joe Bedard

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SATA on Tyan Thunder K8W supported during install of SuSe 9 ?
by Frank Pieczynski 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Hello all, as far as I find out in the archive a driver is now available for the Si3114 SATA controller (used on Tyan K8W), at least for 2.6. So my question: Can I install Suse 9 for AMD64 on this box using two SATA disks (planned as RAID 1) ? If this info helps: my board is a S2885 rev.03 Thanks Frank

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Compatable hardware for SuSE 9.0 AMD64 version
by Emile van Mierlo 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Hello, I looked in this groups archives, and did not find much discussions yet about the athlon64 and athlon64 FX51, so I hope I'm not off topic here. I have SuSE 9.0 Professional AMD64 version, and looking wich hardware will work the best with this software. (I try to avoid "difficult components" when I still can) I checked the SuSE hardware compatability list, but this list is completely empty as far as "SuSE 9.0 Professional AMD64" compatability is concerned. I asked the SuSE helpdesk, but there answer is: "Our research and development department has some Opteron (pre-production series directly from AMD) systems and I don't expect that we will buy new hardware anywere soon. So I could only point you to the experience of other users" Are there some of you out there, running this stable? What hardware do you use? I was looking at: - For the Athlon64, Motherboard: Asus K8V or MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R. - For the Athlon64 FX51, Motherboard: Asus SK8V or MSI K8T Master2 FAR. All boards have the VIA K8T800 Chipset and VIA VT8237 Southbridge. (Don't need any features on the motherboard, the less, the better --which is difficult to get) Does anybody know if this AMD64 version is picky about memory modules? - Harddisk controller: Don't think the S-ATA controllers on these boards are supported; will the P-ATA controler work? Maybe an addional affordable SCSI controller? - Graphics card: nVIDIA Geforce FX 5900 (from ASUS) Anybody experience with any of this? I would greatly appreciate all sugestions. If I'm in the wrong list, please let me know. Emile

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tyan has x86-64 SATA driver for silicon image chipset
by Mark Horton 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

This is mostly an FYI. Has anyone here tested it with SLES 8.2? I'd be interested in finding out well it works. I dont have a tyan board so I can't test it out. It looks like the driver is not open source unfortunatly. http://www.tyan.com/support/html/drivers_linux.html Mark

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Schedule for VT8237 S-ATA Module?
by h.andy＠gmx.de 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Hi everyone! I am already running a Athlon64 System (right now with 32-Bit XPPro :-( ). I have bought a MSI K8T, which has the VT8237 Controller. From what I can see now it was a bad idea to switch to a S-ATA harddisk, as i am not able to install a 64Bit SuSE (tried this with 8.2Beta9) with my hardware... I do not have any other harddisks (sold 'em), so I was wondering when a working module with support for S-ATA will be out... I do think about buying the 9.0 AMD64 pack, but as long as there is no possibilty to install it onto my machine, that would be kind of a bit silly ;) (reminds me of the time when I started with Linux, had to wait for S.u.S.E 4.4 to get support for my Matrox Millenium :-) ) Hope to hear some good news soon TIA Andy

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Re: AMD64 SuSE 9 and DVD install. your chicken sacrificing days are over
by David Carter 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Well, what do you know? It worked! I guess this would probably apply to almost everyone with a combo dirve or a writer. The question remains though - how can YaST be improved to accomodate this? I'd hate to go through this again for the next install. Dave On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:12, Andrew Halliwell wrote: > I just encountered the same problem you posted about on the SuSE mailing > list (as I'm not subscribed, I thought I'd pass on my solution directly). > > I don't know what the cause is, but it seems SOME DVDs are more tempermental > than others, as I encountered the problem with one model of DVD (Samsung > SM352 DVD/CDRW combo), but plugging a more generic non-CDRW DVD in worked... > > I googled, found nothing, looked at the suse mailing list, found yours but > found no solution, then had a brain wave... > > And it worked. > > When the DVD comes to the menu, type linux hdc=ide-scsi. Then proceed as > normal, until the installer complains about CD1 not being in. Press OK, this > drops you back to the curses based installer of yesteryear and allows you to > select drivers manually... Select SCSI and then ide-scsi, and continue... > > The ide-scsi module would appear to bypass whatever problem the normal > ide-cd driver has with the model of drive I was using (and presumably > yours). > > Hope it works for you... > (You can of course test it without proceeding with the full install if > you've got everything working now)

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