Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Thursday 09 September 2004 03:33, Fred M.Sloniker wrote:
Anybody else want to take a stab? I can repost all my info to date if you've lost track... Since no-one's come back, I'll guess that it's a Serial ATA disk and controller, but since I've never seen an SATA system nor dealt with one it seems possible. Maybe post your motherboard details, and a description of the connectors and cables that attach the disk in question?
Yes, the ASUS P4P800S motherboard spec says: 2 x UltraDMA 100/66/33 Built-in ICH5 supports 2 x Serial ATA so it is a SATA problem. Suse 9.0 (or any other distro with a 2.4 kernel) won't fully support it. You can make it work (I've done it) by switching to what is known as 'legacy' mode in the BIOS. This makes the SATA drives appear as secondary IDE master and slave. So you need to move your CD into primary slave on the same chain as your primary master IDE drive, because you can't use any devices on the real secondary IDE chain whilst in legacy mode. You switch to legacy mode in the BIOS somewhere; I can't tell you where because I'm using an Intel BIOS. You also need to check the boot order of the drives - make sure the IDE/PATA drive is first (of the hard drives, after the CD drive :) Then hopefully it will install. I believe Suse 9.1 will support the system in 'enhanced' mode (I've just installed one) but I had trials and tribulations along the way. Search the list archives for sata in the subject. Cheers, Dave