Dell PowerEdge T105 User Manual

Information update, Sata optical drive support in suse linux

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Information Update

Memory Module Installation Guidelines

The following information updates the memory module installation
guidelines.

If only DIMM_1 is installed in your system, its capacity must be 512 MB
or 1 GB. A single 2-GB DIMM installation is not supported.

SATA Optical Drive Support in SUSE Linux

SUSE

®

Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 does not support internal

SATA optical drives on systems with more than 4 GB of system memory.

The SATA optical drive connected to the SATA controller is not recognized
during and after installation because of an issue with the sata_nv driver. A fix
for this issue will be available in a future service pack.

To work around this issue, you must load the sata_nv driver with the adma
mode disabled during boot-up.

Add the following text to the kernel line in the /boot/grup/menu.1st file

sata_nv.adma=0

The following is an example of the menu.1st file:

root (hd0,1)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x317

resuem=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts

sata_nv.adma=0

initrd /boot/initrd

May 2008

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