On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 22:23 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > >One last possibility. > > > >When the first Opteron mainboards came out with the AMD8131 tunnel, Tyan > >had an issue when 4GiB of RAM was used. They recommended you enable the > >memory hole. > > > >That issue should be _long_removed_ in the S2895, but it probably > >wouldn't hurt to enable any memory hole (above 3.65GiB), or actually > >remove 2GiB of RAM and see if it sees the card and its firmware in the > >BIOS (as well as Linux). > > > >If so, get Tyan on the phone. You should _not_ be seeing that. > > I 2nd that motion (remove 2 GB of RAM), I am also on the SuSE AMD64 list > & there are dozens of threads about people having install problems with > > 2 GB of RAM onboard during install. They have various recommendations > to get around it (noapic during install, others, I don't recall them > all), but get down to 2 GB RAM or less seems to cure a multitude of ills > during install. > OK. But here's the problem. What difference will removing 2GB of Ram make any difference once the machine is back up and running with 4GB of RAM. I would feel better if the PCI bus actually saw the card. I will try doing a few things tomorrow: 1) Try moving the 3Ware card from the 133MHz slot to one of the 66MHz slots and see if linux sees the card. 2) I will possibly try removing 2GB of RAM and see if things magically start working :) 3) I'll poke around in the BIOS some more and reread the kernel parameters list again and see if something obvious appears. -- Sean O'Connell Office of Engineering Computing oconnell at soe.ucsd.edu Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD 858.534.9716 (49716)