On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:31 +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:12 pm, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > More SATA troubles to report. I'm using this sid-amd64-netinst.iso (Feb. > > 11, 2005) to install Debian-amd64 on two in theory identical new > > dual-AMD64 boxes (Mobo Tyan Thunder K8W, S2885). The hard drives are > > Seagate Barracuda, 200G, Model ST3200822A8. Attached you will find the > > lspci output. > > Pedro, > > I just saw that there is a BIOS update (2.04) with a remark: "Update Silicon > Image Oprom to v5.048 to resolve some DOS & Linux compatibility issues"... > But could not find what that means... > Thanks, my board has BIOS 5.0.31. I'll see if I can upgrade to the latest.
> I've just updated to this version, but did not see any differences... I've > installed in December on my Tyan K8W with the net install disk without > problems on a SATA system with a Maxtor 6B200M0... the > vmlinuz-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8-smp (-4) kernel reboots after detecting the SATA > disks, but 2.6.8 runs fine. (the first revision of this 2.6.10 kernel worked > too...) > > Anyway, I've been running the pure64 for two months in a production > environment and I'm very happy with it. So, don't give up :) > > Egon > Thank you, this is encouraging. And no, I won't give up for now. But I hope it won't take me too long otherwise the "other" folks will tell me "why bother? just install XP." Cheers, -- Pedro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
