I just recently built a new machine and the hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA (crap! Don't buy). Anyway, I'm stuck with it now and that would be fine if I could get Linux on it. SuSE 8.2 does not recognize the drive in the installation. I have done some research and have found that many other people are having the same problem, especially with this drive and chipset configuration. I am running an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe with the Intel 875P chipset. I am not sure of the SATA controller chipset, but I know that it has an onboard Promise RAID controller, I don't think the Promise chipset controls the SATA drive in a non-Raid configuration though. I am not using RAID. Anyway, what are my options to install SuSE? From what I understand the 2.4.22 kernel and newer has support for SATA drives, and that I must launch the installer from at least this version of the kernel. I believe I could install SuSE on an IDE drive, upgrade the kernel, and somehow launch the installation from that drive. Is this possible? Also, I am planning on upgrading to SuSE 9.0 anyway. Would this alleviate the problem? Or would I have the same trouble? Jason Pacheco Systems Developer Technology Center for Cables & Connectors Naval Undersea Warfare Center Code 2133 PH: (401) 832-6482 FAX: (401) 832-1042
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 16:08, Pacheco Jason NPRI wrote:
Also, I am planning on upgrading to SuSE 9.0 anyway. Would this alleviate the problem? Or would I have the same trouble?
On my own machine I had to enable SATA in the bios before anything could be installed, but after that SUSE 9.0 installed smoothly. (It has a Maxtor 160GB, Diamond Plus.) -- Øystein Olsen, oystein.olsen@astro.uio.no, http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no University of Oslo, Norway
You probably have to turn on Compatible mode for the harddrives in the bios, instead of enhanced. I have the same board, but with P-ATA harddrives, and had the same issue. After installing everything, I built my own kernel 2.4.22, and turned on the Intel PIIX driver, then set the harddrive mode in the bios back to enhanced, and everything worked. I'm not sure if this will fix the S-ATA drives though, but worth a try. I now have two of these p4c800-e deluxe systems, one with linux and one with windows xp, very nice systems, I think it's the fastest non-server Pentium 4 board you can buy right now. By the way, stay away from bios 1013 if you see it anywhere, it crashed my board and had to send for a new bios (1011). Asus has pulled it from their servers, but not all of them. -- Chris Geske - LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. lims@newnorth.net -----Original Message----- From: Pacheco Jason NPRI [mailto:PachecoJ@Npt.NUWC.Navy.Mil] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:08 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] SATA installation I just recently built a new machine and the hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA (crap! Don't buy). Anyway, I'm stuck with it now and that would be fine if I could get Linux on it. SuSE 8.2 does not recognize the drive in the installation. I have done some research and have found that many other people are having the same problem, especially with this drive and chipset configuration. I am running an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe with the Intel 875P chipset. I am not sure of the SATA controller chipset, but I know that it has an onboard Promise RAID controller, I don't think the Promise chipset controls the SATA drive in a non-Raid configuration though. I am not using RAID. Anyway, what are my options to install SuSE? From what I understand the 2.4.22 kernel and newer has support for SATA drives, and that I must launch the installer from at least this version of the kernel. I believe I could install SuSE on an IDE drive, upgrade the kernel, and somehow launch the installation from that drive. Is this possible? Also, I am planning on upgrading to SuSE 9.0 anyway. Would this alleviate the problem? Or would I have the same trouble? Jason Pacheco Systems Developer Technology Center for Cables & Connectors Naval Undersea Warfare Center Code 2133 PH: (401) 832-6482 FAX: (401) 832-1042
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:08, Pacheco Jason NPRI wrote:
I just recently built a new machine and the hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA (crap! Don't buy). Why? Elaborate please, I'm saving up for one!
Solution to your problem, you have to set some switch regarding SATA in the bios to something like "legacy" or "compatible" - not sure which. Or you could go the long way around, the way I did before I knew of that switch: Install on a PATA disc, upgrade the kernel to 2.4.22, boot the new kernel, copy the contents of your installation over to the SATA disc, fix the fstab, install grub. Worked OK too. Hans
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