A friend of mine got a Dell Precision 450 with 2 SATA drives which SuSE 9.0 can't recognize (installer says there are no hard drives). I know it can be installed in legacy mode (BIOS). Is it worth doing it or will 9.1 be a better way to go? Any comments/experiences??? alberto ------------------------------------------------------------------- Alberto Santana, Ph.D. Center for Chemical Sensor Development for Explosives Department of Chemistry University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez P.O. Box 9019 Phone: (787) 832-4040 x3760 Mayaguez PR, 00681-9019 http://www.uprm.edu/~asantana
Hi Alberto, I don't have this particular model, but I did build a AMD64 machine this summer based on an ASUS A8V mobo. I have 2 SATA drives installed in it and they appear to work just fine under SuSE 9.1. AFAIR support for SATA has been improved much in the 2.6 kernel and SuSE immediately recognized the two hard drives. The issue you will have to look into is whether the chip on the mobo belongs to the supported ones. I believe I used this url as a starting point when I researched the subject: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html The only flop I keep having with my setup is that I can't have the two hard drives at the same time on one controller. I have to disable RAID in the BIOS and hook the second one up on the RAID controller. Best regards, Alex. On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Alberto Santana wrote:
A friend of mine got a Dell Precision 450 with 2 SATA drives which SuSE 9.0 can't recognize (installer says there are no hard drives). I know it can be installed in legacy mode (BIOS). Is it worth doing it or will 9.1 be a better way to go? Any comments/experiences???
alberto
------------------------------------------------------------------- Alberto Santana, Ph.D. Center for Chemical Sensor Development for Explosives Department of Chemistry University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez P.O. Box 9019 Phone: (787) 832-4040 x3760 Mayaguez PR, 00681-9019 http://www.uprm.edu/~asantana
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Alex Angerhofer wrote:
The issue you will have to look into is whether the chip on the mobo belongs to the supported ones. I believe I used this url as a starting point when I researched the subject: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
Thanks for this EXCELLENT link. Up-to-date information on which chipsets are supported by which kernels/drivers! Thanks again, Dave
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 08:15, Alberto Santana wrote:
A friend of mine got a Dell Precision 450 with 2 SATA drives which SuSE 9.0 can't recognize (installer says there are no hard drives). I know it can be installed in legacy mode (BIOS). Is it worth doing it or will 9.1 be a better way to go? Any comments/experiences???
both worked fine for me (but on a different hardware) First legacy mode and SuSE 9.0, and later, when 9.1 was available, switch the bios to back sata, update the grub menu, and continue working. HTH, Matt
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