Hi Jyh-Shyong Ho, Your a genius ! you picked it in 1. After I updated the BIOS, it must have lost all the settings :-( A question for the mailing list. If on the Tyan 2885, you have "Serial ATA Option ROM" is set to [RAID], but you dont create a RAID set, could this explain some of the performance problems I faced. Because I treated each disk as a separate volume, both Linux 8.2 Beta and WIndows XP 64 bit both had horrible delays in writing to the disk. Should have the BIOS be set to IDE in this case ? Alan

-----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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