Paul Cooper wrote:

On 12/2/05, Alan Lirette wrote:

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I have recently tried to install Suse Professional 9.2 on a Dell Precision 380.

Unfortunately, the OS does not recognize the SATA controller during install.

The Dell box has an Intel 82801 GR/GH ICH7R/DH SATA raid controller.

There are no drivers available for Suse from Intel and the ata_piix kernel module does not recognize the hard drives.

I have tried to switch the SATA controller to "combination" in bios. It can than recognize the drive, setup the partitions but while the drive is being formatted, it just hangs forever.

Any ideas?

Try turning the raid functions off and just run it as a drive, that should work.

I had the exact same problem using a custom built PC with the exact same SATA controller. I could not get SuSE 9.2 installed using various configuration options in the BIOS. The furthest I got was to the point where the partitions was formatted but then the install hanged. We have tested the same system with Ubuntu and Impi live CD's and it worked without a problem. The machine didn't boot with a SuSE 9.2 live cd. We ended up installing SuSE 9.3 which seemed to have solved the issue. Albert -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.10/190 - Release Date: 2005/12/01