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 > [log in to unmask] >