It would seem I'm not the only one having the same problem. http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39625 http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39621 On Friday 05 October 2007 19:47, Muhammad Rivai wrote:

On 10/6/07, Nathaniel Dube wrote:

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When I boot up the openSUSE 10.3 DVD it takes about 30 seconds or more to load the sata_sis driver. So I'm wondering if that's broke. I've tried acpi=off, which didn't work. I've tried turning off ACPI in bios and acpi=off which didn't work. I tried the Kernel Safe Settings, which didn't work. I tried brokenmodules=sata_sis, which didn't work.

I have two HD's. The primary one is PATA which is where I install the OS. The secondary HD is a SATA which I store /home. As I write this I'm on openSUSE 10.2 and all my hardware is working fine.

What would change in 10.3 that would make SATA all of a sudden non responsive?

I got same experience. I've 2 SATA harddisks which working fine with OpenSUSE 10.2 but it can't be detected on OpenSUSE 10.3. I used 1 KDE CD (openSUSE-10.3-GM-KDE-i386). Is there any driver which didn't load or didn't included in 1 KDE CD or is there any change with SATA driver ?

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On 10/8/07, Nathaniel Dube wrote:

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It would seem I'm not the only one having the same problem.

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39625 http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39621

I've trying with another computer with SATA harddisk and OpenSUSE 10.3 installed very well. It looks like that sata_sis driver has broken, and the problem occured with this driver only.

Vavai That's what I figured. If this was Windows I would just download a driver

On Sunday 07 October 2007 21:40, Muhammad Rivai wrote: that worked. Because the driver's in Linux are modules of the kernel I have no idea how to fix something like this. You would think the kernel developers would find an easier way so us simple users could easily upgrade or replace broken drivers. But noOoo!

On Monday 08 October 2007 10:39, Nathaniel Dube wrote:

On Sunday 07 October 2007 21:40, Muhammad Rivai wrote:

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On 10/8/07, Nathaniel Dube wrote:

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It would seem I'm not the only one having the same problem.

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39625 http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39621

I've trying with another computer with SATA harddisk and OpenSUSE 10.3 installed very well. It looks like that sata_sis driver has broken, and the problem occured with this driver only.

Vavai

That's what I figured. If this was Windows I would just download a driver that worked. Because the driver's in Linux are modules of the kernel I have no idea how to fix something like this. You would think the kernel developers would find an easier way so us simple users could easily upgrade or replace broken drivers. But noOoo!

You would think the hardware manufacturers might release suitable information or source code so that Open Source systems developers might be able to make them work with free software. And that those using Open Source systems might figure out where it is that the problem is coming from. But noOoo!

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On Monday 08 October 2007 03:40:38 Muhammad Rivai wrote:

On 10/8/07, Nathaniel Dube wrote:

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It would seem I'm not the only one having the same problem.

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39625 http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39621

I've trying with another computer with SATA harddisk and OpenSUSE 10.3 installed very well. It looks like that sata_sis driver has broken, and the problem occured with this driver only.

Vavai

I have the same problem. Foxconn motherboard (SiS), first hard drive IDE, second hard drive SATA. This is the relevant part of my start up log, from dmesg - I see the SATA entries are both trying to use IRQ 17, but don't know enough to know if that's a problem: SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 3.00 loaded. pata_sis 0000:00:02.5: version 0.5.2 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.5[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 scsi0 : pata_sis scsi1 : pata_sis ata1: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00014000 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00014008 irq 15 ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD300LD, WK100-12, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 586072368 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2.00: ATAPI: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A, VY03, max UDMA/33 ata2.01: ATAPI: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-230A, 1.01, max UDMA/33 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG HD300LD WK10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM SONY DVD RW DRU-700A VY03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM PLEXTOR CD-R PX-230A 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sata_sis 0000:00:05.0: version 0.8 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 sata_sis 0000:00:05.0: Detected SiS 180/181/964 chipset in SATA mode scsi2 : sata_sis scsi3 : sata_sis ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001e100 ctl 0x0001e202 bmdma 0x0001e500 irq 17 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001e300 ctl 0x0001e402 bmdma 0x0001e508 irq 17 ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=960) ata3: reset failed (errno=960), retrying in 10 secs ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=960) ata3: reset failed (errno=960), retrying in 10 secs ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=960) ata3: reset failed (errno=960), retrying in 35 secs ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=960) ata3: reset failed, giving up ata4: COMRESET failed (errno=976) ata4: reset failed (errno=976), retrying in 10 secs ata4: COMRESET failed (errno=976) ata4: reset failed (errno=976), retrying in 10 secs ata4: COMRESET failed (errno=976) ata4: reset failed (errno=976), retrying in 35 secs ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps ata4: COMRESET failed (errno=976) ata4: reset failed, giving up -- Bob openSUSE 10.3, Kernel 2.6.22.5-31-default, KDE 3.5.7 r72 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 10/8/07, Nathaniel Dube wrote:

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On 10/8/07, Nathaniel Dube wrote:

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It would seem I'm not the only one having the same problem.

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39625 http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=39621

I've trying with another computer with SATA harddisk and OpenSUSE 10.3 installed very well. It looks like that sata_sis driver has broken, and the problem occured with this driver only.

Vavai That's what I figured. If this was Windows I would just download a driver

On Sunday 07 October 2007 21:40, Muhammad Rivai wrote: that worked.

Not always the case. If the vendor or MS do not release a driver for your hardware, (think Vista about 6 or 7 months ago) then you are S.O.L. until one gets released.

Because the driver's in Linux are modules of the kernel I have no idea how to fix something like this. You would think the kernel developers would find an easier way so us simple users could easily upgrade or replace broken drivers. But noOoo!

Adding additional modules to kernel to support your hardware is not that difficult. If you were able to follow instruction on how to find registry settings and tweak dword's in windows, then you should be fine with kernel moldules. plus, it's much more fun! :-) Check some posts online, google ng's, there are many really handy HOWTO's on kernel compiling. -- cheers, dg <a href="http://opensuse.org"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 80px; height: 15px;" alt="openSUSE.org" title="openSUSE.org" src="http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/6/6e/Suselinux-green.png" /></a> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org