Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (342 mails)

[Carl Zeilon <pclinux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running a single 120 Seagate SATA & have the identical MB as 
Hanel.  Make sure the BIOS is configured to treat the drive as an IDE & not 
SATA RAID.

At 07:38 AM 3/2/2005, Robert Cunningham wrote:
> I had the same problem with mine it. The Seagate drive seems to have a lot 
> of trouble with the sata controllers on this board (or just not a good 
> drive) I took it back and bought 2 Deskstar Sata drives and all is well now
>
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> Hänel Matthias wrote:
> > Hi,
> > we bought a brand new AMD64-PC with a AMD64 3200, ASUS A8V-E Deluxe and a
> > Geforce 6200 (MSI NX  6200)
> > with 1 GBytes of RAM a Seagate SATA 160 GB harddrive. Actually, we ran into
> > problems while installation.
> > First we were trying with the DVD-Installation (Manual, Install, Install
> > without ACPI, Install safe) the results are
> > always the same. The systems locks up with a beep directly after yast is
> > initialized but not started. Therefore we were trying a real old PCI 
> > graphics controller with S3 chipset and we got
> > the same lockup.
> > Then I read here on the list there is a patch CD that solves these SATA
> > problems. Today we tried this new installation
> > CD (Patch_CD_RC3). Actually we got no new results, always this lockup right
> > before yast is starting. So,we tried to disable USB, Firewire, ACPI in 
> > the BIOS with no significant result. No ACPI
> > results in "normal installation" locks earlier but installation with 
> > "noacpi" still locks before yast. Actually, we
> > tried SUSE 9.1 (64) with the same result. The last
> > test we did was an installation of a pretty old dist (SUSE 8.0 32-Bit) to
> > prove the hardware. This test was successfully.
> > That means the hardware works properly but not with newer distributions.
> > Does anyone realized some problems like this? Is there a solution for this
> > problem?
> > Thank you in advance.
> > with best regards
> > Matthias Hänel
>
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> Robert Cunningham
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> Kettering University
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