Michael Hannon <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> The installer is not able to find any disk drives.  There are two SATA
> drives in the system:
>
>      motherboard:
>          TYAN S2875 Tiger K8W #D1558-102 Revision 1.02
>
>      hard drive:
>          WD 250GB SATA
>
> We're thinking about just dropping in an ATA drive and using that as the
> system disk.  Any better ideas?

This uses the Silicon Image SiI 3114 controller.  We have a 2x opteron
box here with the Tyan S2882 mobo that also has this controller.  It
has 2 SATA drives and they work under 32 bit Debian (sarge), Linux
2.4.26-4. - so there exists a software solution.  It is using the
sata_sil and libata modules.

I'm no SL expert, but maybe there is a way to tell the installation
program to explicitly use these modules?  If not, using an ATA system
disk is probably the next simplest way to go.

-Brett.