Hi Zube, On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0700, Zube wrote: > On Fri Mar 31 09:39:24 AM, 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. > > I started down the painful x86_64 road late last year with CentOS 4.2. > There is a message in the archives where I mistakenly attribute many of the > problems I experienced to a Logitech mouse. Thanks for the opportunity to > set things straight. > > For the record, I tried: > > disabling the SATA RAID, even though I had only one disk > disabling the onboard SATA and using 2 different brands of PCI > SATA controllers > pulling my hair out > > all to no avail. The main symptom was a hard hang and errors of this form: > > ata4 command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 > ata4 command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 Yep, that's what I'm seeing too, with the odd ata3 timeout mixed in. Great to have the problem confirmed - thanks. > Sometimes the machine would recover after a long wait, other times nothing > but a power cycle would fix it. This was with the 1.01 and 1.02 Tyan bioses. > > Installing a SCSI card and an old SCSI disk in the machine made it happier, > but slower. > > As a last resort before installing a different distribution, I downloaded > the 2.6.15.6 kernel source and using the .config file as a base, I added > everything I could find related to SATA and SCSI. I had to compile it on > an nfs-mounted drive, for fear of tickling the host_stat error. The new > home-spun kernel has been a success; I haven't seen the errors since. I > then installed the 2.6.16 kernel compiled locally and still no errors. > > The machine hasn't been tested thoroughly, but it is most certainly usable > with a newer kernel. Which matches my experience of SuSE10 working fine on the same MB, with a (SuSE-patched) 2.6.13 kernel. Thanks much, Gavin