On Tuesday 25 February 2003 06:25, Wade Hampton uttered: > I have several new SuperMicro dual XEON machine with 2 ATAPI drives. > Hyperthread tested both enabled and diabled. SMP is set to version 1.4 > (can downgrade to 1.1 in BIOS). Tested with ACPI enabled and disabled. > > I can't get RH 8 loaded because of several issues. We use some of these at Pogo Linux all the time. Promise is a joke of a raid chip. Unless you want to rely on sudo hardware, and not so great performance, I suggest you don't use it in Linux. Linux software raid out performs and is more stable than this chip. Your other problems sound like bad install media. We do 25~20 installs of Red Hat 8.0 every day, and a few of them are on dual xeon boards from SuperMicro. Nary a problem, if we avoid the promise controller. Try doing a text mode install, skipping X all together. Also, run mediacheck on your install media. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
