Michael,

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Michael David Joy wrote:

> 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.

I know the code is in the i386 kernel for at least some version of the
Silicon Image chips as I have installed from that.  The kernel is the
standard RedHat kernel recompiled.  I will research.

-Connie Sieh

>
> 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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