On Nov 27, 2007 9:01 AM, Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
ankush grover wrote:
Hi Friends,
I am trying to install Suse 9.0 Enterprise Server on Server on Core2Duo Xeon 3040 (2.4 Ghz) ,4GB DDR2 667 RAM and Toshiba 160 GB SATA 2 HDD .
Suse is not able to detect the SATA hard drives. Is there any way I can install Suse 9.0 on this server.
It was somewhere around the Suse 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 timeline that SATA support was introduced and then refined. I don't remember exact versions, sorry. But I guess that SATA support in 9.0 is going to be very patchy, if it exists at all. And of course it can't support any newer hardware developments.
It might be possible to make 9.0 work with your SATA disks by backporting newer drivers, but it will be an awful lot easier to install a more modern release.
As a fudge, you may be able to switch the SATA drives to 'legacy' mode in the BIOS. You'd need to check the hardware manuals for details.
Cheers, Dave
In particular, Sata-2 will buy nothing but trouble with an older kernel. (Rarely worthwhile even with a current kernel due to Sata-1 being as fast as most of the other hardware anyway. Sata-2 is only useful with PMP devices, and those require a new kernel to be supported.) So I would check those drives and see if there is a jumper to restrict them to Sata-1 capability. That should turn off some sata-2 features (like NCQ) that are simply not supported with an old kernel. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org