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Quote:> I have searched on the internet but failed to find about how to add a
> SATA HD step by step instruction.  Hope someone can help me here.  I
> use Tyan thunder K8W  mother board which has Silicon Image 8114
> SATA/RAID controller on board.  I have a intel scsi RAID controller
> with a scsi drive to boot up my system.  My OS is Fedora Core 2, kernel
> 2.6.5-1.   I connect with a SATA drive and boot up system.   By the
> way, my BIOS is set to "Enable" on on board SATA and "RAID" is the
> option.   In Fedora, I can see Silicon Image 8114 as my RAID controller
> in system tool "hardware browse"  but I can find my drive in either
> /dev/sdb~e or /dev/hda_e.  /dev/sda is my scsi drive.  I have download
> a beat driver from Silicon Image but it doesn't come with very clear
> instruction.  I just neesd some data in SATA.  Hope you can help me
> out.  thank you in advance.

P.S: Tyan K8W, IIRC, is a dual CPU Athlon-64 mobo. I assume you'll use it
as a server. Are you really going to use Fedora on a dual Athlon-64 server?

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Quote:> begin  Sam dedi ki:

> > I have searched on the internet but failed to find about how to add a
> > SATA HD step by step instruction.  Hope someone can help me here.  I
> > use Tyan thunder K8W  mother board which has Silicon Image 8114
> > SATA/RAID controller on board.  I have a intel scsi RAID controller
> > with a scsi drive to boot up my system.  My OS is Fedora Core 2, kernel
> > 2.6.5-1.   I connect with a SATA drive and boot up system.   By the
> > way, my BIOS is set to "Enable" on on board SATA and "RAID" is the
> > option.   In Fedora, I can see Silicon Image 8114 as my RAID controller
> > in system tool "hardware browse"  but I can find my drive in either
> > /dev/sdb~e or /dev/hda_e.  /dev/sda is my scsi drive.  I have download
> > a beat driver from Silicon Image but it doesn't come with very clear
> > instruction.  I just neesd some data in SATA.  Hope you can help me
> > out.  thank you in advance.

> Try disabling RAID feature of 3114 in BIOS and see dmesg output for
> messages relevant to 3114 controller. Another possibility could be poor
> 3114 driver in your particular distro/version.

I have a similar problem with SuSE 9.1.  The SI9114 driver is there,
but it doesn't work.  Installations fail randomly.  If I install on a
pATA drive and just put <swap> and /home on the SATA drive it will hang
randomly during operation.  According to Tyan it's a known problem with
no fix from SI.  ...since July.  :-(

Any help would be appreciated.

Quote:> P.S: Tyan K8W, IIRC, is a dual CPU Athlon-64 mobo. I assume you'll use it
> as a server. Are you really going to use Fedora on a dual Athlon-64 server?

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  Keith