Hello All,
I just finished installing SL 3.03 X86_64 on a Supermicro X6DAL-G board
(Intel 7525 chipset). This is a dual Xeon EM64T 2.8 Gigahertz system. I
noticed two strange problems. One is with the Silicon Image 3112 based
controllers. I could not get any drives to format more than about 2-3
percent on 3 different manufacture PCI SI3112 serial ata controllers.
The drives formatted just fine with the Seagate sata tools in dos on
this controller, but not in linux. The same drives format fine with the
ATA_PIIX driver using the on board ICH5 sata controller in linux.

This seems to be an problem related to this particular intel chipset and
SI3112 driver as it happens with Fedora Core 2 x86_64 as well as FC3
Test 1 x86_64.

On a separate note, if I boot this box with the included 2.4.20 SMP
kernel in SL3.03 the system fails to initialize the ATA_PIIX controller,
kernel dumps some error messages and immediately reboots. If I boot with
the non-smp kernel, the system comes up just fine, and show's 4 cpu's as
you'd expect from a hyperthreaded dual cpu system. However, why does the
non-smp kernel show dual processors, and why does the SMP kernel hang?

I know there's probably not an easy answer to this question. Any ideas?

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Michael Joy
HEP - University of Mississippi
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