Sounds good. Am I right in assumming you are not running Suse 9.0 ? The problem with SATA for me started when I installed 9.0. When I was running 8.2 Beta, everything was fine, except some performance problems where both Suse 8.2 and Windows XP 64bit hung for upto 1 minute, and then continues as if nothing happened.

-----Original Message----- From: Jyh-Shyong Ho [mailto:c00jsh00@nchc.org.tw] Sent: Sunday, 21 December 2003 5:37 PM To: Alan Gray Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] More woes with Sata(n) on Tyan K2885 motherboard

Hi,

I solved partially the problem of Silicon Image 3114 SATA driver on Tyan 2885 motherboard. I downloaded the beta version of the driver from Silicon Image user support page. You need to fill the dialog box with the right keyword (something like sii3114 SATA 64-bit driver for Linux) under "Submit a Question" in order to get the SiI3114: Serial ATA (SATA) 64-bit Linux RAID Driver-beta (driver 3114_AMD_linux_rdvr-1.0.0.20-BUNDLE-.zip) listed for download.

Since my SLSE8 for AMD64 is already running, I simply copied the driver sii6514.o to directory /lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP/kernel/drivers/scsi and used command

insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP/kernel/drivers/scsi/sii6514.o

to install the module. After the module is installed, the 4 disks (in RAID 0 specified in Silicon Image BIOS setting during the system boot) appears as /dev/sda.

At tne moment, I have to include above command and mount the file system in file /etc/init.d/boot.local in order to load sii6514.o every time I reboot the system.

Since the disks connected to SATA board do not appears in the list of bootable devices in TYAN2885's BIOS, in addition, the SLSE8 installers does not include driver Sii6514.o, there is no way to install SLSE8 on any one of the SATA disks or RAID.

Actually, I am using IDE hard disks with SATA-IDE adapters to connect SATA cables.

Jyh-Shyong Ho, PhD. Research Scientist National Center for High-Performance Computing Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

Alan Gray wrote:

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Hi there,

Thanks for that, I have a look in a few minutes in the BIOS.

Silicon image did release drivers for 8.0/8.2beta of Suse

but not 9.0.

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I have tried installing the 2.6.0 Linux kernel, but get a hang on boot. I'm not sure what SLSE8 is.

Another poster, Frank, did manage to get SATA running on a 2885, but he was running different SATA drives from me (I have Seagate). In the 2.6 kernel, there is work happening, but not soon enough for me. I'm going to put everything on SCSI (except /boot which will need to be on a IDE disk).

Andreas Jaeger spent a fair bit of time with me trying to get the Silicon Image Sata(n) controller to work, but in the end, he recommended using IDE :-( which I aggreed with after waisting a week on it.

Not sure if this helps

Alan

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-----Original Message----- From: Jyh-Shyong Ho [mailto:c00jsh00@nchc.org.tw] Sent: Sunday, 21 December 2003 1:14 PM To: Alan Gray Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] More woes with Sata(n) on Tyan K2885 motherboard

Hi,

I have the same TYAN2885 board. Please check your BIOS setup, under Advance menu, "Onboard Serial ATA" should be [Enabled], and "Serial ATA Option ROM" shluld be [RAID]. With this setting, the booting procedure will display the list of disks connected by SATA cables and the Silicon Image BIOS message (Cntr-S or F4 to configure RAID). If "Serial ATA Option ROM" is set to IDE, then only the list of disks will be displayed. Only when "Serial ATA Option ROM" is set to [RAID], the RAID disk will appear in the BOOT menu as one of the bootable hard disks.

My problem on TYAN2885 is that SLSE8 for AMD64 (kernel 2.4.19smp) does not recognize these disks, I guess that the Silicon Image 64-bit driver is missing in my SLSE8 CDs, anyone knows how to solve this problem?

Graphic card is another problem, does anyone know what graphic card is available for TYAN2885 runng SLSE8 for AMD64 with SMP kernel?

Regards

Jyh-Shyong Ho, PhD. Research Scientist National Center for High-Performance Computing Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

Alan Gray wrote:

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It just gets worse and worse.

Unless I'm going crazy, at some point during boot, when the

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loads for the Tyan K2885, it used to display a message for which keystrokes/function keys to press to configure the raid settings etc etc.

Now, this does not display and I've tried every combination I can think off. Can anyone remember the keys?

All I did was use the Tyan update bios listed elsewhere on

Silicon Image Bios this mailing list.

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Since then the message has gone. I even down graded the BIOS back to the release version and the message is still absent.

What is worse is now my installation of Windows 64 bit edition does not boot. When the Sil bios loads, it lists the 2 drives, but does not seem to then list the logical drives (I used striped RAID across the 2 seagate 80gig drives)

Arrrgggghhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alan

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