On Saturday 15 July 2006 11:48, Matt Bottrell wrote:

Short and sweet.

Long time Linux user.... and been using both RH and SuSE for many years.

Finally bought a new machine (AMD AM2 socket based (Pacifica support).

Anyway... time to move from my old Dual Core X2 4400+ machine to my new AM2 machine.

Motherboard is an Asus M2V (See specs here: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1171&l1=3&l2=101&l3=30 5)

Stuck in a Seagate 500GB SATA-II disk.

SATA chipsets on MB are as follows:

* VIA(r) VT8237A South Bridge: 2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33 2 x Serial ATA with RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD * Marvell 88SE6121: 1 x Serial ATAI/II 1 x External Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard disk (SATA On-the-Go)

Unable to get the SATA disk recognised under either chipsets/ports. :(

Clarify.... have you done a fresh install of your system (not sure whether it is 10.0 or 10.1 at this point)? If not, you probably need to add some modules into /etc/sysconfig/kernel as in: INITRD_MODULES="piix ata_piix aic7xxx processor thermal fan jbd ext3" and then run mk_initrd. The first 3 are most likely the culprits.

Any clues.... I did a SATA install flawlessly under 10.0... though haven't progressed far with SUSE 10.1.

I found it strange that the install also failed to find the IDE DVD -- and I had to manually select the 'ide-generic' module for it to recognise the drive. I've attempted loading similar modules for the SATA controllers but with no luck.

Any pointers would be greatfully recieved. :)

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