Hi, We've got an AMD64 3000+ machine with SuSE 9.1 x86_64 installed and running nicely. The mobo is a foxconn with a SiS760/960 chipset. The hard disk is a SATA drive connected to the first SATA channel. There are a DVD writer and DVD-ROM attached the secondary channel, master and slave, respectively. The partitions on the disk are devices /dev/sdaX - i.e. the disk is recognised as SCSI. I would like to upgrade to SuSE 9.2 x86_64 so downloaded the boot.iso burned the disk and rebooted. I cannot get the installer to recognise that there are is SATA or a hard disk installed on this machine. So what's different? Nothing has changed about the hardware on which I installed the currently running SuSE 9.1 and the failing SuSE 9.2 install. What can possibly be wrong!!!??? Cheers, Jon -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: 01865 272156 fax: 01865 282675