Chris Mauritz wrote: > Chris Mauritz wrote: >> Anyone using boards with this chipset? I've gotten some dual core >> single cpu boxes along with the physical dual cpu boxes I just >> received and they're using the Serverworks HT1000 (Broadcom 5785) >> chipset. My CentOS 4.2 DVD doesn't want to recognize the chipset so >> I can't see any of the SATA drives in the integrated SATA ports. >> Drives on 3Ware cards work as expected, but I was hoping to also make >> use of the integrated SATA ports. I'm downloading 4.3 via bitorrent >> now, but I suspect that isn't going to solve the problem without some >> command line magic. >> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > OK, I've gotten the x86_64 CentOS 4.3 DVD downloaded now so I'll have > another go at it. I managed to find a "driver disk" from Supermicro's > ftp server for RHEL4 so I'm hoping that will fix the problem. > According to a few posts I found in various forums, the driver I'm > after seems to be "sata_svw". Hopefully, that does it. Otherwise, I > guess it's time so scrounge up some extra 3ware cards instead. :-) That seems to work (sorta). I had to configure the SATA controller to use MMIO instead of the default IDE setting. Then when I get the linux prompt when booting from the DVD I type "linux dd". When it later asks me if I have a driver disk, I say "no" and all appears to work normally. However, the machines crash/hang when the partitions are being formatted. Since this is just for burn in and testing, I use the default partitions that are suggested and it formats root just fine and then hangs about 90% of the way through /boot....every time on more than one machine. :-( Any suggestions?