Re: [SLE] Problem with SuSE 9.2 and SATA
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:29:07 +0100, Ventura Valderrábano Ornedo <valderrabano@gthv.es> wrote:
Hi.
Problem: Seagate's SATA drives doesn't change to "write mode" when the SATA controller is from Silicon Image.
Solution: Change your drives to Western Digital or Maxtor. No more solutions found yet.
I tried to solved it 6 months ago and finally that was the best solution. It's a Seagate failure, not from Silicon Image.
Hmmm.. Looks like the problem is far worse. I tried a Western Digital WD800 ATA/100 drive and it gives the same problem. Maybe the kernel that SuSE 9.2 ships with has an issue with the mobo. Does anybody know of a Gigabyte GA-8TRS350MT system that runs SuSE 9.2? I see there is a newer BIOS version out. Will give that a go. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
Andre Truter wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:29:07 +0100, Ventura Valderrábano Ornedo <valderrabano@gthv.es> wrote:
Hi.
Problem: Seagate's SATA drives doesn't change to "write mode" when the SATA controller is from Silicon Image.
Solution: Change your drives to Western Digital or Maxtor. No more solutions found yet.
I tried to solved it 6 months ago and finally that was the best solution. It's a Seagate failure, not from Silicon Image.
Hmmm.. Looks like the problem is far worse.
I tried a Western Digital WD800 ATA/100 drive and it gives the same problem. Maybe the kernel that SuSE 9.2 ships with has an issue with the mobo.
Does anybody know of a Gigabyte GA-8TRS350MT system that runs SuSE 9.2?
I see there is a newer BIOS version out. Will give that a go.
I can confirm that my Intel Bayfield I865G works with SATA and to my knowledge the BIOS has not been updated. Perhaps the fact that I also have an IDE drive connected to the motherboard yields a different result? or the fact that the machine is dual-boot I dunno. Perhaps try adding in a small IDE drive as well as the SATA drives and see if that works. Hope it helps -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:31:41 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I see there is a newer BIOS version out. Will give that a go.
I can confirm that my Intel Bayfield I865G works with SATA and to my knowledge the BIOS has not been updated.
Perhaps the fact that I also have an IDE drive connected to the motherboard yields a different result? or the fact that the machine is dual-boot I dunno. Perhaps try adding in a small IDE drive as well as the SATA drives and see if that works.
I discovered that both drives are in fact IDE (ATA/100). I originally assumed that it was SATA drives because the BIOS was set up to enable SATA. But I disabled SATA and the WD drives that I tried are also IDE. I also tried an older IDE drive (no ATA) and the system did not even pick it up I think that SuSE 9.2 and the latest kernel of SuSE 9.1 just does not play on that specific mobo. I have installed 9.1 again and it is running with the shipped kernel. I cannot even upgrade the kernel. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
Andre Truter wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:31:41 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I see there is a newer BIOS version out. Will give that a go.
I can confirm that my Intel Bayfield I865G works with SATA and to my knowledge the BIOS has not been updated.
Perhaps the fact that I also have an IDE drive connected to the motherboard yields a different result? or the fact that the machine is dual-boot I dunno. Perhaps try adding in a small IDE drive as well as the SATA drives and see if that works.
I discovered that both drives are in fact IDE (ATA/100). I originally assumed that it was SATA drives because the BIOS was set up to enable SATA.
But I disabled SATA and the WD drives that I tried are also IDE.
I also tried an older IDE drive (no ATA) and the system did not even pick it up
I think that SuSE 9.2 and the latest kernel of SuSE 9.1 just does not play on that specific mobo.
I have installed 9.1 again and it is running with the shipped kernel. I cannot even upgrade the kernel. Perhaps it is possible to recompile the 9.2 kernel for your MB?
-- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:56:44 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) <hylton@global.co.za> wrote:
I have installed 9.1 again and it is running with the shipped kernel. I cannot even upgrade the kernel. Perhaps it is possible to recompile the 9.2 kernel for your MB?
I don't know what to enable in the kernel to get it to work. I suppose I can go through a process of elimination, but unfortunately the box is a clients and it needs to go back in production as he needs the temporary backup box for other work. So we have to live with 9.1 for now. The client will buy a proper backup box later and by that time the next release of SuSE should be out, then we can try again. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
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