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 > > Dave Thompson <[log in to unmask]> > > Associate Researcher Department of Computer Science > University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~thomas > 1210 West Dayton Street Phone: (608)-262-1017 > Madison, WI 53706-1685 Fax: (608)-262-6626 > -- > > > 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 > >[log in to unmask] >