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?
No, AFAIR it cannot - there's no open source driver for the SATA controller. Andreas
FreeBSD has one: atapci0: <Promise PDC20378 SATA150 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f,0xdfa0-0xdfaf,0xdf00-0xdf3f mem 0xfc9c0000-0xfc9dffff,0xfc9ef000-0xfc9effff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci1 It could be ported to Linux.
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