Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 10:28 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi.
I have an old ASRock motherboard K7VT4A and also a K7VT6.
Both motherboards have SATA connectors on them.
I use a PATA drive where the opensuse is installed on.
I would put a SATA drive on both computers, but the SATA drive is not detected.
There can be settings in the BIOS for how the SATA disk is presented. For example, in our SuperMicro systems, in the BIOS we must enable AHCI for the SATA disks. We also need to disable presenting the SATA disks as RAID. In our case, there are 4 hot-swappable SATA disks.
Most newer controllers have in the BIOS a 'Legacy' setting. Mostly deals with the order in which the drives are presented. It will be something like SATA+PATA, or PATA+SATA. It's been too long since I used a VIA 8237, so I don't remember exactly. If we are talking about SATA-II disks, you may need to use the SATA 150 jumper on the disk as this mobo is SATA 150 only. -Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org