...and then it just stops. Any help? When I ran into strange install problems, I used F2 to get text mode install and then I chose manual install. I am no expert at

Fred M.Sloniker wrote: that but I was able to fake my way along and got it to install. Damon Register

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 17:53:40 -0400, Damon Register

When I ran into strange install problems, I used F2 to get text mode install and then I chose manual install. I am no expert at that but I was able to fake my way along and got it to install.

I tried that, but the install stalled out at the same place: (The last several lines of output:) ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xefe0-0xefe7, 0xefae on irq 5 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1794KiB Cache, CHS=10011/255/63, UDMA(100) hde: attached ide-disk driver. And stop. BTW, I did discover some new (to me) information in the BIOS: my 80 gig drive is my primary master, while the DVD/CD drive is secondary master and the 120 gig drive is the tertiary master. I didn't know there was such a thing as a tertiary master. Should I be going in and jumpering it as the primary slave or something? Anybody else want to take a crack at this non-install problem?

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:17:57 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

You might try two things. First, put the aux disk controller card into another slot. If that doesn't work, try installing w/o the aux card installed, and reinstall it after completeion. (if...).

Er, I opened up my computer to try out this advice and found no aux disk controller card. Indeed, all three drives are cabled to the motherboard in various places. The ones for the 120 gig HD look completely unlike those the 80 gig HD has, though; I'm guessing it's not actually IDE, or at least it's a different kind of IDE. Or something. (Hardware isn't my strong suit.) Anybody else want to take a stab? I can repost all my info to date if you've lost track...

On Thursday 09 September 2004 04:15, Fergus Wilde wrote:

On Thursday 09 September 2004 03:33, Fred M.Sloniker wrote: <SNIP> 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?

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Fergus Wilde wrote:

On Thursday 09 September 2004 03:33, Fred M.Sloniker wrote:

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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