That's what I did, but scan the January and February archives on this list to get a lot of other ideas. You can use the rescue disk, the patch-CD and/or another disk. Kinda frustrating, but nice once it works! Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, martink wrote:

Hey Ross,

You've hit on the answer to a degree, install SuSE on the ata100 disk, then build the kernel with sata. You may need to google for the driver if it's not in the kernel so your luck may vary. I did exactly this when i was getting the GigaRAID stuff working on my machine. Shame I had to do programming stuff to make it happen though.

Hope this help,

Martin.

---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Ross Biggar" To: Sent: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:16:16 +1300 Subject: [suse-amd64] Serial ATA with an AMD64 and SUSE 9.0 pro

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I have just purchased an new computer fitted with an AMD64 and SUSe 9.0 professional to go on it. Unfortunately SUSE does not find the hard drive when I try to install it.

The mother board is manufactured by Micro-Star International and is K8T Neo MIS-6702 version 1.0. the hard drive is a Seagate 120gb at 7200rpm with serial ATA. I believe the SATA is the problem.

Can anyone advise me how to get SUSE installed. I suspect the SATA needs a driver, if so where do I get it, (is there one available)? and how is it installed.?

Any help gratefully accepted

regards Ross Biggar Auckland New Zealand

ps: Would another way out of the problem, be to fit another hard drive but with ATA 100 (the mother board will allow this)i nstead of trying to put SUSE on the SATA drive. If I did this will there be any problems with the SUSE installer finding the second drive.?

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If only there was one for the GigaRAID controller (ITE 8212F) now:( Martin. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Fent [mailto:sf@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 7:38 PM To: Ross Biggar Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Serial ATA with an AMD64 and SUSE 9.0 pro * Ross Biggar [040309 05:16]:

I have just purchased an new computer fitted with an AMD64 and SUSe 9.0 professional to go on it. Unfortunately SUSE does not find the hard drive when I try to install it.

The mother board is manufactured by Micro-Star International and is K8T Neo MIS-6702 version 1.0. the hard drive is a Seagate 120gb at 7200rpm with serial ATA. I believe the SATA is the problem.

Can anyone advise me how to get SUSE installed. I suspect the SATA needs a driver, if so where do I get it, (is there one available)? and how is it installed.?

There is a patchCD iso image with a kernel that supports SATA on ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/supplementary/9.0-PatchCD Just use it to boot, after you entered the settings for installation, you will be asked for the 9.0 DVD.

Any help gratefully accepted

regards Ross Biggar Auckland New Zealand

ps: Would another way out of the problem, be to fit another hard drive but with ATA 100 (the mother board will allow this)i nstead of trying to put SUSE on the SATA drive. If I did this will there be any problems with the SUSE installer finding the second drive.?

You will need a new kernel anyways.

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Yep, tried it, a few problems with 64-bit that gave me a bit of greif initially. I have however fixed them up and made driver disks for i386 and amd64. Was just wondering if SuSE was going to provide something similar or if it was possible to submit them (with my modifications and tests) and have them included for everyone to use. Regards, Martin. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Fent [mailto:sf@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 8:06 PM To: Martin P. Kalitis Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Serial ATA with an AMD64 and SUSE 9.0 pro * Martin P. Kalitis [040309 09:45]:

If only there was one for the GigaRAID controller (ITE 8212F) now:(

There is a driver at: http://www.ite.com.tw/productInfo/Download.html#IT8212F I just saw it - don't know anything more.

Martin.

-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Fent [mailto:sf@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 7:38 PM To: Ross Biggar Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Serial ATA with an AMD64 and SUSE 9.0 pro

* Ross Biggar [040309 05:16]:

...

I have just purchased an new computer fitted with an AMD64 and SUSe 9.0 professional to go on it. Unfortunately SUSE does not find the hard drive when I try to install

...

The mother board is manufactured by Micro-Star International and is K8T

Neo

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MIS-6702 version 1.0. the hard drive is a Seagate 120gb at 7200rpm with serial ATA. I believe the SATA is the problem.

Can anyone advise me how to get SUSE installed. I suspect the SATA needs a driver, if so where do I get it, (is there one available)? and how is it installed.?

There is a patchCD iso image with a kernel that supports SATA on ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/supplementary/9.0-PatchCD Just use it to boot, after you entered the settings for installation, you will be asked for the 9.0 DVD.

...

Any help gratefully accepted

regards Ross Biggar Auckland New Zealand

ps: Would another way out of the problem, be to fit another hard drive

but

...

with ATA 100 (the mother board will allow this)i nstead of trying to put SUSE on the SATA drive. If I did this will there be any problems with

it. the

...

SUSE installer finding the second drive.?

You will need a new kernel anyways.

...

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