Serial-ATA under amd64 suse
Hello, I've just found out the hard way that Suse doesn't support serial ATA drives under 9.2 for the AMD64 version. I got Suse because Mandrake doesn't have any support at all and the PPP via modem doesn't work under Mandrakes AMD64 version. It does support serial ATA though. Does anyone know how I could patch Suse to see a serial ATA drive, and load over Mandrake? I don't mind repartitioning and formatting - I'm dealing with a new system. I asked support what it would cost to create a patch, and they want to know the details of the what chip set is on the disk drive. Since the bios can see the disk, this shouldn't matter - it's just calls to bios for track and sector reads. Thanks for any suggestions. Mike Rosing
Mike Rosing
Hello,
I've just found out the hard way that Suse doesn't support serial ATA drives under 9.2 for the AMD64 version. I got Suse because Mandrake
There's no 9.2. We only have a 9.0.
doesn't have any support at all and the PPP via modem doesn't work under Mandrakes AMD64 version. It does support serial ATA though.
Does anyone know how I could patch Suse to see a serial ATA drive, and load over Mandrake? I don't mind repartitioning and formatting - I'm dealing with a new system.
I asked support what it would cost to create a patch, and they want to know the details of the what chip set is on the disk drive. Since the bios can see the disk, this shouldn't matter - it's just calls to bios for track and sector reads.
Check the archives of this list, we released a patchcd that gives you SATA support, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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