Looks like exactly the same config as I had. The wierd thing was that 8.2 Beta for Suse had support from Silicon Image for the Sata drives. I did experience wierd pauses when writing large files to disk. Most of these disappeared when I ran Raid (striped). I emailed Silicon Image and they pretty well ignored any request for a ETA on drivers. I'd say (IMHO) that whey are waiting for the 2.6 kernel to have support. I also had some problems under Windows XP 64 bit for AMD, where I'd get pauses on the system for up to 1 minute and then the computer continued as if nothing happened. I have to say the 3/6 months is my opionion/guestimate. I could be proven wrong (happens quite offen ;-). But I've burned 3 weeks on trying to get the sata to work with help from lists.suse.com but I've real work to do so I'm going back to tried/trusted/expensive SCSI (all my previous computers were SCSI) Alan
-----Original Message----- From: Steven A. DuChene [mailto:linux-clusters@mindspring.com] Sent: Tuesday, 23 December 2003 8:27 AM To: Alan Gray Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Tyan 2885 and 2.6.0-test11-mm1 "no init found" on boot.iso
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:15:09AM +1100, Alan Gray wrote:
All I can say at the moment is I feel for you. I gave up yesterday and purchased 2 SCSI disks. (you can see all of my horrors in previous messages)
It is probably 3/6 months too early for Sata(n) and linux. One of the posters, Frank did get his Sata disks running, but I have Seagate drives and he did not. There where a number of patches in Bart's siimage.c for seagates.
Not sure this helps.
Hmm, that does not speak well of the technology that it hasn't settled out enough yet that there would still be implementation differences in different manufacturer's drives. This system I am working with has two Seagate ST380013AS drives.
-----Original Message----- From: Steven A. DuChene [mailto:linux-clusters@mindspring.com] Sent: Tuesday, 23 December 2003 6:24 AM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Tyan 2885 and 2.6.0-test11-mm1 "no
init found" on boot.iso
I have quite a bit of Linux experience (since 1993) and I
am running other 2.6.0-test
kernel on my other x386 system but this is the first Opteron system I have goofed with.
BTW, what I meant to say here is that I am running various 2.6.0-test kernels on many different X86 Intel/AMD systems with no problems. -- Steven A. DuChene linux-clusters@mindspring.com sduchene@mindspring.com