Hello, On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2010-03-12 at 17:37 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
You must not have your MB controller set to use AHCI. You control that via you bios settings.
I strongly suggest you use AHCI if you can. It is the linux preferred way to talk to a SATA drive.
In my case, if I do that the disks dissapear.
What exactly do you not understand about 'if you can'? Do you have 'ahci' in your initrd? If not: it's your own fault. There _are_ good reasons not to use AHCI. And there are good reasons to use it. YMMV. As I've implicated: I've used the non-AHCI mode on the three year old "new box" (sata_nv + sata_sil) until the MoBo broke. Three years ago _is_ three years ago though, and I just didn't have the time to test the switch to AHCI under 10.2/11.1/11.2 before that mobo-change. But now, with the HW change and 11.2, I thought, heck, just let's try it. So, now, I use ahci for the AMD/ATI onboard chip and sata_sil as before for the offboard controller. And well, it just works just like it did (with /dev/sda being what it was, the HDD switch was a bit later). Mind you: on the old box, I use 2.4.x and the old legacy IDE drivers (i.e. not even pata_* but the real old generic IDE non-libata stuff). I also use the OSS sound drivers, never got Alsa working ok with that ISA soundcard I got, even though Alsa's supposed to support it and I think I got some noise out of it using Alsa under some SUSE 8.x-10.1 or so, but not reliably. Probably because even isapnp/pnpdump see nothing of that card. So I stick with OSS. -dnh -- Me: "This message in the Messages and Codes Manual says that I should consult my systems programmer." IBMer: "Yes. What's wrong with that?" Me: "I _am_ my systems programmer." -- Mike A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org