I had upgraded a computer with opensuse 11.3 to 13.1, which worked fine in a computer with a Asus A7V600 motherboard and a Athlon XP2600+ At the first time from the beginin of the installation, I hear a noise coming from the hard disk, like a beat from the HD heads. Once the instalation was completed, I modified the file /etc/sysconfig/kernel and added the module sata_via, and created a new initrd and the system worked better with less beats from the HD heads, but not completely resolved. [ 7.376475] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 [ 7.376483] ata1:00: failed command: READ DMA [ 7.376489] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:40:20:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in [ 7.376490] res 51/84:2f:20:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x12 (ATA bus error) [ 7.376493] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } (this is nearly the captured images from the computer screens) I found a driver patch from viaarena and downloaded it: http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/via_idepatch_linuxdriverpackage_1.7.0.zip But they are for the kernel 2.26.27.19-5 from 4 years ago, and the sata_via.c is version is 2.4 againsta version 2.6 from the actual kernel 3.11.10-7. The other problem is the system I installed is 32 bits, but on my pc hay have X86-64. Later I modified the file /etc/sysconfig/kernel and replaced the module sata_via with ahci and created a new initrd, and the system worked worst. How can I resolve this problem? -- USA LINUX OPENSUSE QUE ES SOFTWARE LIBRE, NO NECESITAS PIRATEAR NADA Y NI TE VAS A PREOCUPAR MAS POR LOS VIRUS Y SPYWARES: http://www.opensuse.org/es/ Puedes visitar mi blog en: http://jerbes.blogspot.com.ar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org