Re: [opensuse] Any news on SiS SATA problem

On Dec 3, 2007 6:14 PM, Bob wrote:

On Monday 03 December 2007 19:43:48 Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On Dec 3, 2007 2:00 PM, Bob wrote:

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Each kernel update gets me excited as I hope they will have solved the problem of openSUSE 10.3 being unable to see SATA hard-drives with certain SATA chipsets (SiS being one of them).

I have just upgraded to 2.6.22.13-0.3-default, but my second (SATA) drive is still unusable :( Fortunately, my other drive is EIDE.

Does anyone know when a patched kernel will be available? -- Bob

Bob,

I think in general that SIS Sata controllers are supported. See http://linux-ata.org/features.html which is for the vanilla kernel and is about 6 or 9 months old I think.

That's an interesting website, which I didn't know about.

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Did you file a bugzilla with Novell and try to get it resolved?

Not me, but see bug 331610

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Greg

Very strange, That bug discusses a non-recognized HD, but Tejun Heo's final answer is that the ATAPI support needs a major update. ATAPI is typically used for optical media (CD/DVD), so I have no idea how he came to that conclusion. Maybe there is something wrong in the ATAPI support that is breaking normal hard disk support. Do you have a CD/DVD drive you could try to disconnect and see if acts as a workaround? FYI: I've seen Tejun Heo posting a bunch of ATAPI fixes to the vanilla kernel sata support list so he is definitely working on the problem and it is not a SUSE caused problem. Instead it appears to be a problem in vanilla that Tejun has picked up as his own. I don't remember him working on ATAPI support much prior to this recent spate of patches he has posted. If curious, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=119634686727783&w=2 and the 14 associated patches he posted that day. HTH Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org