Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

["Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andre Truter wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:31:41 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 
>
> > > I see there is a newer BIOS version out.  Will give that a go.
> >
> > I can confirm that my Intel Bayfield I865G works with SATA and to my
> > knowledge the BIOS has not been updated.
> >
> > Perhaps the fact that I also have an IDE drive connected to the
> > motherboard yields a different result? or the fact that the machine is
> > dual-boot I dunno. Perhaps try adding in a
> > small IDE drive as well as the SATA drives and see if that works.
>
>
> I discovered that both drives are in fact IDE (ATA/100).  I originally
> assumed that it was SATA drives because the BIOS was set up to enable
> SATA.
>
> But I disabled SATA and the WD drives that I tried are also IDE.
>
> I also tried an older IDE drive (no ATA) and the system did not even pick it up
>
> I think that SuSE 9.2 and the latest kernel of SuSE 9.1 just does not
> play on that specific mobo.
>
> I have installed 9.1 again and it is running with the shipped kernel. 
> I cannot even upgrade the kernel.
Perhaps it is possible to recompile the 9.2 kernel for your MB?


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