Thanks all for the assistance, but I found a Tyan proprietary sata_sil
driver for SuSE 9.3 that contains the following text:
6. Known Restriction
The driver could only work on a platform that has less than 4 giga
memory.
It looks like I may be out of luck with this SATA controller, I guess
I'll go back to trying to get my HPT374 driver to not lock up with
drives attached on boot.
Eric Wort
Eric Wort wrote:
First off, I have never been able to get this machine to boot any
release of Fedora Core with more than 4GB of RAM installed, as it
starts having SATA seek errors.
Configuration is as follows:
Dual Opteron 248's in a RioWorks HDAMA board
4 or 8 GB worth of 1GB Corsair registered DDR400 sticks
2 SATA 74gig Raptors (for the OS)
2 SATA 200gig Seagates
3 PATA 200gig Seagates
SATA drives are hooked to the Promise PDC20319 onboard controller
Upon trying to upgrade to FC4 from FC2 with 4GB of RAM in the box,
the machine would crash just after detecting the videocard in
anaconda. For some reason I decided to randomly toss in the other 4
sticks(bringing the total to 8GB) and try the install again, which
worked perfectly during the entire install. Upon rebooting the fresh
FC4 install, it had the same SATA seek errors as normal. Taking the
box back down to 4GB allowed it to boot right up. Does anyone know
why the install kernel would have zero problems with an hour long
install, while the stock FC4smp kernel can't even boot without seek
errors? I imagine it may be due to the install kernel being single
processor, but I am not sure.
Thanks,
Eric Wort
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