https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750 Summary: MSI K9A2 Motherboard has a Promise T3 drive controller. SuSE sees PATA, but not SATA drives. Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: RC 1 Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: dukebright@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer No other Linux distro I have tried does any better, but I really like SuSE, so I'm asking you to see if you can do anything about this. The MSI K9A2 motherboard (Athlon64) has two drive controllers. The first deals with 4 SATA drives, and SuSE handles them exactly as it should. (One problem with earlier SuSEs was that the (SATA) CD-Rom drive locked, and couldn't be ejected after a SuSE LiveCD was shut down. A power-off reboot was necessary to unlock it. SuSE 11.1 RC1 has fixed that.) The second controller is identified by MSI as a Promise T3 controller. I believe it handles 4 drives: two PATA and two SATA drives. RC1 sees the PATA drives, but not the SATA drives. The Promise intends optionally to use the two SATA drives in a RAID configuration. However, I have only a single SATA drive and wish to use it in non-RAID form. Windows XP and Windows XP-64 have no trouble accessing that drive, but no Linux I have tried (including Ubuntu, Debian Etch, System Rescue CD, or Ubuntu 8.10 Ultimate Edition) is able to see that drive. I have found some internet references to this problem: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/drivers-for-promise-pdc... http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/33755 One person claims to have improved the driver: http://www.colinmackenzie.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12:promise-satasas-driver-update-tx4650tx2650&catid=8:rotator&Itemid=7 But his advice is well beyond my skill level. Furthermore, the discussions I have found are unclear whether the same software works for the imbedded chips on the K9A2 motherboard and the PCI[?] boards Promise sells for use in other PC systems. If you think something can solve this access problem, I would be happy to try it on my hardware, but I am not sufficiently skilled in the programming art to compile drivers. Thanks for your time! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.