SuSE 9.1 Error: No hard drive! (Installation problem) South Bridge Chipset: SIS964 Hard Drive: 160GB SATA What can I do? Can a driver be introduced? If SuSE is incompatible with this controller, does someone know a compatible distribution (e.g. Mandrake or Fedora)? Thank you for your notice, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
On Sunday 28 November 2004 07:27 am, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:
SuSE 9.1
Error: No hard drive! (Installation problem)
South Bridge Chipset: SIS964
Hard Drive: 160GB SATA
What can I do? Can a driver be introduced?
If SuSE is incompatible with this controller, does someone know a compatible distribution (e.g. Mandrake or Fedora)?
Does your BIOS allow for a 'legacy' mode? That might allow you to do the install and run until the controller is supported. (legacy mode would run the SATA interface in PATA mode which makes it look like normal IDE drives.) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 11/28/04 09:52 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Never play leapfrog with a unicorn."
On Sun November 28 2004 7:27 am, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:
SuSE 9.1
Error: No hard drive! (Installation problem)
South Bridge Chipset: SIS964
Hard Drive: 160GB SATA
What can I do? Can a driver be introduced?
If SuSE is incompatible with this controller, does someone know a compatible distribution (e.g. Mandrake or Fedora)?
Thank you for your notice,
You have 2 problems. 1) the chipset is SIS. 2) SATA is STILL a problem for the 2.6.* kernel. Fred -- "As Internet technology itself vaults into new areas, so too does the Microsoft monopoly and its tried-and-true bag of tricks." -US Senator Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah
On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:49 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:
You have 2 problems. 1) the chipset is SIS. 2) SATA is STILL a problem for the 2.6.* kernel.
SATA runs fine on my Intel DP875 board and has since 9.1. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 11/28/04 11:59 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?"
Bruce, On Sunday 28 November 2004 09:00, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:49 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:
You have 2 problems. 1) the chipset is SIS. 2) SATA is STILL a problem for the 2.6.* kernel.
SATA runs fine on my Intel DP875 board and has since 9.1.
But it's a virtual certainty that Intel's mainboards use Intel chipsets, not SiS chips! Also, note that if all you tell us is that you're running SuSE Pro 9.1, then we don't know if you're running a 2.4 or a 2.6 kernel, since both are available as an installation (and YOU update) option for that distribution.
-- Bruce S. Marshall
Randall Schulz
On Sun November 28 2004 12:26 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Bruce,
On Sunday 28 November 2004 09:00, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:49 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:
You have 2 problems. 1) the chipset is SIS. 2) SATA is STILL a problem for the 2.6.* kernel.
SATA runs fine on my Intel DP875 board and has since 9.1.
But it's a virtual certainty that Intel's mainboards use Intel chipsets, not SiS chips!
Also, note that if all you tell us is that you're running SuSE Pro 9.1, then we don't know if you're running a 2.4 or a 2.6 kernel, since both are available as an installation (and YOU update) option for that distribution.
As far as I know, Intel chipsets will work with Linux, as will most Adaptec, but SIS has always been dubious at best and should be avoided, IMHO. Fred -- "As Internet technology itself vaults into new areas, so too does the Microsoft monopoly and its tried-and-true bag of tricks." -US Senator Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah
On Sunday 28 November 2004 12:26 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Bruce,
On Sunday 28 November 2004 09:00, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:49 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:
You have 2 problems. 1) the chipset is SIS. 2) SATA is STILL a problem for the 2.6.* kernel.
SATA runs fine on my Intel DP875 board and has since 9.1.
But it's a virtual certainty that Intel's mainboards use Intel chipsets, not SiS chips!
True.... but the statement made was that there was a problem with the 2.6.* kernel. Only for certain chipsets I guess....... and I don't consider that a problem with the kernel.
Also, note that if all you tell us is that you're running SuSE Pro 9.1, then we don't know if you're running a 2.4 or a 2.6 kernel, since both are available as an installation (and YOU update) option for that distribution.
-- Bruce S. Marshall
Randall Schulz
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