sata_sil driver

[Mark Lane]

On November 25, 2004 09:00 am, hayward-redhat at loup.net wrote:
> I bought three tyan thunder S2882 dual opteron server motherboards
> nearly a year ago and have had no luck booting hardly any distribution
> I try.  I got SuSE 8.0 working about a year ago but SATA support is
> nearly non-existent.  Thought I'd try FC3 since it's been another
> year, but it locks up after the kernel has loaded and it says it's
> loading the sata_sil driver which is probably compiled as a module.
> I'm not sure how to stop the driver from loading, but I don't think
> the kernel is doing it automatically.  I'm fairly confident it's the
> problem; the system locks up hard and only a hard reset will get it
> going again.  I have upgraded to Tyan's most recent bios with upgrades
> for the Sil3114 and tried rescue and noprobe, etc. but all of them try
> loading the sata_sil driver and so lock up.  I do want to use the
> Sil3114 SATA chipset, which is why I bought the machines and a bunch
> of SATA drives but still no luck.
>
> Is anyone else getting FC3 working on Tyan SATA motherboards?  The
> Tyan site claims Redhat Enterprise is working on the motherboards, so
> there must be significant installer boot differences between RHAT and
> FC3?

I have had RHEL 3.0, FC1, FC2 and FC3 working with onboard SATA and the Tyan 
S2882. No problems. Are you sure the system is hanging as selinux really 
slows stuff down if enabled?

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