On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:28 +0200, Hendrik Tews wrote: > "Harald Dunkel" <harald.dunkel@t-online.de> writes: > > sata_sil is on the current Sarge netinst CD for i386, but AFAIK > this is pretty new. Anyway, it doesn't help: After loading sata_sil > the partitioning menu still does not show any disks. > > Have you tried autodetecting hardware after modprobing sata_sil? > This worked for me. I used the Debian installer version tc1 on a > dual Opteron with a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro (S2882) board. > > Unfortunately I could not finish the installation. I got random > crashes. Now I am running memtest, watch the error logs and wait > for the technician. > > Does anybody have an S2882 board with less than 4GB memory > installed? > > Does anybody know something about the ``up to 4GB DRAM system > unstable issue'' that Tyan fixed in a recent bios version > (http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_s2882.html) ? I don't know about the problem, but I have a Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882 with 2G of RAM and four WD SATA drives. It has been rock solid for a few months now (currently 48 days uptime on a 2.6.6 kernel). It is used as a database server, but admittedly it has not been heavily stressed for most of that time. Cheers, Andrew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 How many things I can do without! -- Socrates -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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