On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 at 9:39am, Gavin Carr wrote
Just wondering if anyone out there has got Centos 4 installed on a Tyan S2895 (that's a Thunder K8WE) motherboard on sata disks? I know about the forcedeth bug, but I'm getting installation hangs at random spots in the install, even off CD, in what seem to be nv_sata timeout problems. SuSE 10 is rock solid on the same box, so I don't think it's hardware, and I've tried two different sets of disks to rule out disk problems. Latest bios updates - tried both 1.02 and 1.03.
Any success stories out there?
I've been running x86_64 centos-4 on one (with a plain SATA disk) for a while now with no problems whatsoever. dmidecode says the BIOS date is 6/7/05 -- I'm not sure what version that corresponds to. The vendor I bought this system from said they've got a lot of systems with this board out there and it's worked well for them. Notably, the vendor I buy my servers from uses Supermicro. :)