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[Carlos F Lange <carlos.lange@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi,
To replace a dying SATA hard-disk I bought another one, but the
boot process hanged with the "Searching for info file" message. 
Using Alt-F4 the last message was about ata2: ... 
After trying to boot in rescue mode with that disk alone and 
on both SATA ports I assumed the hard-disk was bad. 

Different SATA disk (Western Digital 120 GB, 8 MB
cache) and still the same problem. This time I tried using my old
SuSE 9.1 DVD and it sees the new disk and formatted it with ReiserFS
without problem.But SuSE 9.3 still shows the same problem. 

I will try to type off the screen the messages from Alt-F4:
[...] 
scsi0 : sata_sil
irq 11: nobody cared! 
 [<...>] __report_bad_irq+0x1c/0x70 
 [<...>] note_interrupt+0x5b/0x80
 [<...>] __do_IRQ+0xdb/0xf0
 [<...>] do_IRQ+0x30/0x60
 [<...>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
 [<...>] __do_softirq+0x31/0xa0
 <...>[] do_softirq+0x26/0x30
 [<...>] do_IRQ+0x3d/0x60
 [<...>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
 [<...>] default_idle+0x0/0x30
 [<...>] default_idle+0x24/0x30
 [<...>] cpu_idle+0x1c/0x60
 [<...>] start_kernel+0x167/0x1d0 
handlers: 
[<...>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore]) 
[<...>] (ata_interrupt+0x0/0x100 [libata]) 
Disabling IRQ #11
ata2: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 234441648 sectors: LBA48

Any idea how I can get this hard disk to work under 9.3? 
I don't want to switch to SuSE10 now, because all my other 
machines are 9.3 and I usually a full upgrade in the summer.
Thanks, 
Carlos 
PS: I forgot to mention that my original Seagate SATA still 
boots fine, despite the couple of bad blocks.

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Carlos
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