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I am having trouble installing SuSE 9.0 Pro on a brand new HP W4000 that is configured only with a S-ATA disk (120GB) attached to the motherboard. Other configuration options include 1GB ECC RAM; everything else is pretty much standard. It just doesn't want to work

Interesting. What is the exact error ?

That's the tricky part ;) It simply freezes. The installation begins, at the point where it detects/probes the IDE chipset, it goes away and doesn't come back. Very annoying to say the least :-) -Joaquim -- /* Free is good, Linux is better [joho] */

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I am having trouble installing SuSE 9.0 Pro on a brand new HP W4000 that is configured only with a S-ATA disk (120GB) attached to the motherboard. Other configuration options include 1GB ECC RAM; everything else is pretty much standard. It just doesn't want to work

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Does anybody know if SuSE 9 supports S-ATA drives?

My onboard Silicon Image 3112A is working perfectly with two Seagate 120GB SATA drives. It's really fast, too. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/omRn+FOexA3koIgRAkWiAKC5zevL3Jj+qdSpC723w24tjw4cCwCguUZG yDwqyFrl9ifi+C6fqgxEsOE= =S3jS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Cant say that about my VIA VT6410 chip on my ASUS P4P800 :-( will it work someday? will we see it in 2.6.0 and SuSE 9.1 someday? On Friday 31 October 2003 16:38, LinuxWorld999 wrote:

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On Friday 31 October 2003 04:24 am, LinuxWorld999 wrote:

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I am having trouble installing SuSE 9.0 Pro on a brand new HP W4000 that is configured only with a S-ATA disk (120GB) attached to the motherboard. Other configuration options include 1GB ECC RAM; everything else is pretty much standard. It just doesn't want to work

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Does anybody know if SuSE 9 supports S-ATA drives?

My onboard Silicon Image 3112A is working perfectly with two Seagate 120GB SATA drives. It's really fast, too.

Thank you for the clarification James.

LW999

Unfortunately, I cannot get passed the S-ATA detection when I boot SuSE 9. It's rather annoying as SuSE's hardware information lists this HP workstation (HP XW4100) as being certified/compatible. I have tried "Installation - Safe mode", etc. etc. nada, no go, zip, zilch! :-( * On 2003-10-31 21:39 Philipp Thomas wrote:

Hi joho, Joaquim Homrighausen [31 Oct 2003 00:38:59 +0100]:

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I am having trouble installing SuSE 9.0 Pro on a brand new HP W4000 that is configured only with a S-ATA disk (120GB) attached to the motherboard. Other configuration options include 1GB ECC RAM; everything else is pretty much standard. It just doesn't want to work

The current state of SATA support leaves much to wish for :(

Can you boot the rescue system? If yes, please do so and send me the output of

lspci -vvx

to my work address. I'll try and see what I can find out. Alternatively point your browser to http://www.suse.de/feedback and make aka bug report that includes the lspci output.