El Miércoles, 6 de Octubre de 2004 18:44, James Oakley escribió: | I had the same problem with slightly different hardware. It turns out that | the SiI is using a packet size that confuses the Seagate, causing it to | stop responding. A workaround was added in a newer kernel. Mmm, with an IDE disk and SuSE 9.1 inside, (kernel updated to 2.6.8), the SATA controller and SATA disk were detected and the sata_sil driver was loaded. Trying the partitioning of the SATA disk crashed the system. =8/ | I simply replaced it with a Western Digital. Sigh!, I can't replace the Seagate. | If you have the patience, you could try updating the kernel on the install | image. Wait for 9.2 or compile the kernel?, that's the question. 8) Thanks a lot. Ventura