Installing directly to SATA drive on Asus SK8N
Hi, 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? Thanks for any help Phil Chapman
Phil Chapman
Hi,
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 -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Hi, You're lucky cause I got that exact same mainboard & CPU and I've been running SuSE x86-64 for a couple of weeks now ;) There are Drivers available for this S-ATA controller but I haven't tested them yet: http://www.busybox.net/pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz It should be working though, give it a shot. However I'd suggest you install SuSE x86-64 on a P-ATA drive connected to the onBoard onChipset IDE-Controller. Don't forget to enable UDMA and 32-bit mode for the harddrive afterwards: hdparm -d1 -c1 /dev/hda Note that this will only work with the SuSE default kernel 2.4.19 but not with any other self compiled kernel yet. Apparantly, SuSE updated the IDE-driver in that specific kernel and those patches are not part of 2.6 yet. Martin On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 20:20, Phil Chapman wrote:
Hi,
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?
Thanks for any help
Phil Chapman
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Martin Jungowski
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Phil Chapman