Op zaterdag 22 januari 2005 16:53, schreef Andre Truter:

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:03:32 -0600, Peter B Van Campen

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Be sure to do a feedback to SUSE. Invoke your install support from them.

Oops I see that I did not reply to the list..

I did some more searching and found some information on the hardware involved.

The SATA chipset is a Silicon Image SiL 3112A and the Harddrives are two Seagate Baracuda ST380011A drives.

From some postings on the mailing list, there are problems when you combine the SiL SATA and Seagate drives.

I found a possible solution that suggest that you add the drive model to the blacklist in the SiL driver code. I did that and compiled a kernel, but it still does not work.

I did the installation and kernel compiling by installing the one disk in one of my own boxes that use VIA SATA chipset. No problems there.

At this stage is looks like we will have to stay with SuSE 9.1 on the box.

I could not find any other solutions.

PS: I discovered now that the drives are ATA/100, not SATA, so I don't know if the SATA chipset is the problem, or can it still affect it. I disabled SATA and it still gives the same problem.

Less than a few hours old: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/92-boot-iso/ Perhaps it helps you... (would be nice if you let us know). -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

Hmm - and I'm still trying to find out if anyone has has any luck with SATA drives and SiS motherboards. Honestly SATA support seems such a mess :( For instance, it seems to depend on whether you have software or hardware RAID implimented on the SATA controller, and whether you have to load low level SCSI support to get the things working. Is there a hardware compatibility list for the various combinations of drives, motherboards, linux versions etc? I have the ridiculous situation where I was able to get SuSE 9.1 x86_64 installed on a SiS mobo (964 southbridge) only if the SATA chip was working in RAID (not IDE) mode - then I tried to do an upgrade to SuSE 9.2 and can't get the installer to recognise my disks at all. I get to the point where the installer detects that it needs to load the sata_sis module, and then hangs the system completely :( Anybody - any ideas? Cheers, Jon. BandiPat wrote:

On Saturday 22 January 2005 03:09 pm, Richard Bos wrote:

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Op zaterdag 22 januari 2005 16:53, schreef Andre Truter:

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:03:32 -0600, Peter B Van Campen

wrote:

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Be sure to do a feedback to SUSE. Invoke your install support from them.

Oops I see that I did not reply to the list..

I did some more searching and found some information on the hardware involved.

The SATA chipset is a Silicon Image SiL 3112A and the Harddrives are two Seagate Baracuda ST380011A drives.

From some postings on the mailing list, there are problems when you combine the SiL SATA and Seagate drives.

I found a possible solution that suggest that you add the drive model to the blacklist in the SiL driver code. I did that and compiled a kernel, but it still does not work.

I did the installation and kernel compiling by installing the one disk in one of my own boxes that use VIA SATA chipset. No problems there.

At this stage is looks like we will have to stay with SuSE 9.1 on the box.

I could not find any other solutions.

PS: I discovered now that the drives are ATA/100, not SATA, so I don't know if the SATA chipset is the problem, or can it still affect it. I disabled SATA and it still gives the same problem.

Less than a few hours old: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/92-boot-iso/

Perhaps it helps you... (would be nice if you let us know).

-- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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Just curious Richard, but how is an Nvidia Nforce3 chipset SATA driver going to help him with a Silicon Image chipset? :-)

just wondering, Lee

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