On Saturday 30 July 2005 18:40, Harald Milz wrote:
does someone have experience with SL (Pro or SLES) on the Thunder K8S Pro (S2882G3NR-D) (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8spro.html) together with an areca ARC-1160 (Intel IOP331 based) 16-port SATA RAID controller?
I have something slightly different: a K8S Pro SCSI with two 3ware SATA RAID controllers in use (one 12 port for the data partition with 2 RAID 5 systems and two hot spares, one 4 port for the OS partition with two mirrored devices - I don't use the on board SATA RAID controller). Difficulties I experienced: * The BIOS wasn't set to ACPI 2.0 (timer problem) * To initialize both RAID arrays, I had to insert the RAID controllers one by one, since the 3ware BIOS only tries to initialize the array on the disk it found, and the second card doesn't run. Reverting the PCI-X boot sequence in the BIOS could also work. The 3ware controller is supported fine by SuSE. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/