Installation problem at raid-0 set at Sil3114 controller at dual- opteron motherboard
Hello All, I have DUAL-opteron matherboard "tyan thunder k8w". I am blocked with a following problem during SUSE 9(AMD64) installation: SUSE installer fails to detect the Raid-0 set created at SiliconImage 3114 controller. As it becomes clear from here: http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-devel/2003-December/000561.html and from this thread: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2003-Dec/0014.html it is still a problem, so any comments/hints/answers are greatly appreciated. Thank you very much, a priori. kind regards, Valery A.Khamenya --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bioinformatics Department BioVisioN AG, Hannover
"Khamenia, Valery"
SUSE installer fails to detect the Raid-0 set created at SiliconImage 3114 controller.
Thank you very much, a priori.
The problem is that the Silicon Image 3114 controller is not supported by 2.4-Kernels (as the installer is using). Even trying it out with Kernel 2.6.0-rc3 last week on my machine requires a patch from the LKML to get at least the first 2 S-ATA channels working. At the moment I don't even think about trying out an installation on RAID, the installation is on an old fashioned IDE disk and I just try out things to get all the S-ATA channels working. Silicon Image is offering bianry drivers for download, but they are for SuSE 8.1 and SuSE 8.2 and so very outdated. I wrote a question to SiI support if they intend to distribute actual drivers or at least put their specs under non-NDA conditions so that open source developers could fix the problems. But so far now answer from SiI. Regards Rainer -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig Project Manager Linux Fujitsu-Siemens VP BC E SW OS Phone: +49-821-804-3321 Fax: +49-821-804-2131
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