Hello All,

I have a question about sata support in SL R3.02.

I just finished building 3 dual opteron boxes with 2048MB of mem in a
NUMA config. The boards have silicon image 3114 chips for the 250GB
drives in the systems, however it appears that sata_sil support was left
out of the scientific linux boot kernel. I believe Redhat Enterprise
supports this chipset just fine, but somehow it got left out of this
release's kernel build.

In other words, SL 3.02 won't install because it can't detect the sata
controller. The boards are Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro's R1.02.

Can anyone comment on this? I've resorted to installing Fedora Core 2
x86_64 for the time being and it is working perfectly. As we are going
to build more systems like this, I'd like to know if there's any work
being done on this. Admittedly I can probably build a custom kernel and
put it on a boot floppy to install SL, but this is a less than ideal
solution. I'd like to have the kernel already built and on the dvd I'm
using for installing without having to roll my own custom SL distro.

I'm open to suggestions.

Michael Joy
HEP - University of Mississippi
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