Hi Greg, On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Greg KH wrote:

Does 11.1 also have this problem?

Unfortunately, I've no clue atm. I initially tried the upgrade to 11.1 on x86_64 & had too many non-starter issues. We decided to pass on 11.1 for now, & dropped back to 11.0 Generally solid as a rock ... If need be, I can DL an OpenSuse 11.1 LiveDVD ... take awhile, of course.

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After boot, I see no trace of the drives (sdc/sdd) in /dev, in Partitioner, or via 'fdisk -l'.

However, booting from non-Suse OS, e.g., gParted LiveCD, all's fine -- I can see/mount, partition, manage the drives.

What kernel version is that cd runing?

it's gParted 0.3.7-7 (http://tinyurl.com/6y3yrx), running kernel version 2.6.24-7. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org

Hi Greg, On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Greg KH wrote:

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If need be, I can DL an OpenSuse 11.1 LiveDVD ... take awhile, of course.

That would be most helpful.

I just realized there's a LiveCD, not a LiveDVD. This shouldn't take too long ... Assuming that the LiveCD *has* the driver, I'll let you know what I find asap.

But note, even if it is found that 11.1 has the driver that 11.0 doesn't, we can't go back and add it to 11.0, as that is in maintance mode now.

I thought 'critical' bugs were included in the support period (2 years, isn't it?); wouldn't complete non-functionality be included? Either way, I'll refrain from going on about that decision, given our experience with the state of 11.1 ...

I think it would be better to help resolve your issues that you have with 11.1

Ok, agreed ...

unless it's the usual "desktop no like" problems that people seem to object to :)

Heh. No, I run headless. I don't care one whit about the desktop, atm. :-) (although, I *have* installed it for my wife, and SHE's happy! KDE 3x, of course ... ;-) ) Thanks. Biab. p.s. Just fyi, My issues *were* (initially) Xen (changes in the bridge initialization were undocumented; solved). Current issue is our 11.0-ready Xen DomU autoyast.xml scripts started hanging all over the place. So far, we can't seem to find version-consistent docs for changes in autoyast that we can use to debug ... and haven't, yet, been able to autobuild a DomU at all :-( To be hari, in general, docs seems to be the issue -- changes made from 11.0 -> 11.1 are (maybe?) good, but docs are lacking. Makes us reticent to make any move for production work ... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org

Hi Greg, On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Greg KH wrote:

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I thought 'critical' bugs were included in the support period (2 years, isn't it?); wouldn't complete non-functionality be included?

Not if the functionality was added after the release happened :)

Hrm. So the sil driver/module was added after the 11.0 release?

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Either way, I'll refrain from going on about that decision, given our experience with the state of 11.1 ...

Are there kernel problems you are having with 11.1? Or is it something else? If it is kernel things, please let us know.

Well, I DL'd and booted from the 11.1 KDE LiveCD. No trace of the sdc/sdd drives hanging off the Sil 3124 card. So, with repect to those SATA drives, gParted 3.7.7-7 OK opensuse 11.0 full release, up-todate NO opensuse 11.1 KDE 4 LiveCD NO So is it kernel? If it is, then it's a problem in 11.1, as well, it seems. No? DL'ing a Ubuntu LiveCD to check ... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org

fyi, this rather long thread seems to address the recent sata_sil24 driver issues -- not sure if it's the same prob as here, of course, "sata_sil24 broken since 2.6.23-rc4-mm1" https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/9/26/323271 I *do* note that one of the folks in that thread, Tejun Heo, is the 'assignee' for the bug I opened on this matter, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463829 which makes me suspect that it may be related ... ?? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org