David,

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, David Thompson wrote:

> I have been in contact with Tyan on the same issue with an S2875 (also SiI
> 3114) with Tao Linux.
>
> There's no open source driver from Silicon Image.
>
> However, there is some good information at
>
> http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
>
> which indicates that patches are available going back to 2.4.21.

I believe that RedHat is updating the sata support in the next update
kernel.  From the announcemnt of the Update 3 beta.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Driver updates including Adaptec RAID (aacraid), LSI Logic
    RAID (megaraid), IBM ServeRAID (ips), LSI Logic MPT Fusion (mpt*),
    Compaq SA53xx Controllers (cciss), QLogic Fibre Channel (qla2xxx),
    Intel PRO/1000 (e1000), Intel PRO/100 (e100), Broadcom
    Tigon3 (tg3), and Serial ATA (libata).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

The enterpise kernel is 2.4.21 + other things RedHat liked.

-Connie Sieh
>
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>
> 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.
> >
> >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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