Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (105 mails)

[Martin Jungowski <jungowsk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You're lucky cause I got that exact same mainboard & CPU and I've been
running SuSE x86-64 for a couple of weeks now ;)
There are Drivers available for this S-ATA controller but I haven't
tested them yet:

http://www.busybox.net/pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz

It should be working though, give it a shot. However I'd suggest you
install SuSE x86-64 on a P-ATA drive connected to the onBoard onChipset
IDE-Controller. Don't forget to enable UDMA and 32-bit mode for the
harddrive afterwards:

hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hda

Note that this will only work with the SuSE default kernel 2.4.19 but
not with any other self compiled kernel yet. Apparantly, SuSE updated
the IDE-driver in that specific kernel and those patches are not part of
2.6 yet.

Martin



On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 20:20, Phil Chapman wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> just subscribed to the list. I got an opteron 144 on an Asus SK8N mobo 
> this week with a 120Gb seagate SATA drive. 
> 
> Can SuSE 8.2 be installed directly to the drive ? I can't get it to 
> recognise it at all, but am not sure which drivers to use? Or should I 
> just install to a default IDE drive and use the SATA drive seperately?
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> Phil Chapman 
>