On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:31:41 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I see there is a newer BIOS version out. Will give that a go.
I can confirm that my Intel Bayfield I865G works with SATA and to my knowledge the BIOS has not been updated.
Perhaps the fact that I also have an IDE drive connected to the motherboard yields a different result? or the fact that the machine is dual-boot I dunno. Perhaps try adding in a small IDE drive as well as the SATA drives and see if that works.
I discovered that both drives are in fact IDE (ATA/100). I originally assumed that it was SATA drives because the BIOS was set up to enable SATA. But I disabled SATA and the WD drives that I tried are also IDE. I also tried an older IDE drive (no ATA) and the system did not even pick it up I think that SuSE 9.2 and the latest kernel of SuSE 9.1 just does not play on that specific mobo. I have installed 9.1 again and it is running with the shipped kernel. I cannot even upgrade the kernel. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~