SUSE 10.1 64-bit and nForce 3 S-ATA problem
A friend is currently trying to install 10.1 on a new S-ATA drive ha has purchased. The machine has been running 10.1 on an old 30GB IDE drive, but he has upgraded to a 250GB S-ATA drive. He is currently trying to re-install and the partitioning keeps hanging with a 1012 error. The motherboard is a Chaintech VNF3-250 Cocket 754 with an nForce3 chipset. The new hard drive is a Maxtor 250GB S-ATA II plugged into a S-ATA I slot - it should drop back to S-ATA 1 compatibility... He only currently has the 64-bit 10.1 DVD, although he does have the 10.0 retail DVD. I've suggested he now try and install the 32-bit 10.0 to see if it is a 64-bit driver issue, but I'm pretty stumped, with my Promise S-ATA controller 2 years ago with SUSE 9.1, or whatever it was at the time, I just popped the DVD into the drive and Bob's your Uncle... I did some Googling, but couldn't find anything specifc to the nForce3 and S-ATA causing problems under Linux. -- David Wright "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 14:26, David Wright wrote:
A friend is currently trying to install 10.1 on a new S-ATA drive ha has purchased. The machine has been running 10.1 on an old 30GB IDE drive, but he has upgraded to a 250GB S-ATA drive.
He is currently trying to re-install and the partitioning keeps hanging with a 1012 error.
The motherboard is a Chaintech VNF3-250 Cocket 754 with an nForce3 chipset. The new hard drive is a Maxtor 250GB S-ATA II plugged into a S-ATA I slot - it should drop back to S-ATA 1 compatibility...
He only currently has the 64-bit 10.1 DVD, although he does have the 10.0 retail DVD. I've suggested he now try and install the 32-bit 10.0 to see if it is a 64-bit driver issue, but I'm pretty stumped, with my Promise S-ATA controller 2 years ago with SUSE 9.1, or whatever it was at the time, I just popped the DVD into the drive and Bob's your Uncle...
I did some Googling, but couldn't find anything specifc to the nForce3 and S-ATA causing problems under Linux.
-- David Wright
David, There have been problems with the nForce 3 chipset, that was the reason they quickly produced the 4. Also, there were problems with SATA drives over 160GB with the older sata controllers. I'm guessing those could be causing him some problems as well with his install. regards, Lee
Am Donnerstag, 13. Juli 2006 05:51 schrieb BandiPat:
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 14:26, David Wright wrote:
A friend is currently trying to install 10.1 on a new S-ATA drive ha has purchased. The machine has been running 10.1 on an old 30GB IDE drive, but he has upgraded to a 250GB S-ATA drive.
He is currently trying to re-install and the partitioning keeps hanging with a 1012 error.
The motherboard is a Chaintech VNF3-250 Cocket 754 with an nForce3 chipset. The new hard drive is a Maxtor 250GB S-ATA II plugged into a S-ATA I slot - it should drop back to S-ATA 1 compatibility...
He only currently has the 64-bit 10.1 DVD, although he does have the 10.0 retail DVD. I've suggested he now try and install the 32-bit 10.0 to see if it is a 64-bit driver issue, but I'm pretty stumped, with my Promise S-ATA controller 2 years ago with SUSE 9.1, or whatever it was at the time, I just popped the DVD into the drive and Bob's your Uncle...
I did some Googling, but couldn't find anything specifc to the nForce3 and S-ATA causing problems under Linux.
-- David Wright
---------------- David, There have been problems with the nForce 3 chipset, that was the reason they quickly produced the 4. Also, there were problems with SATA drives over 160GB with the older sata controllers. I'm guessing those could be causing him some problems as well with his install.
regards, Lee
Yikes, thanks for that. I haven't had any machines with nForce, so hadn't come across this problem. I've passed the information on, he'll probably look at a slightly more reliable motherboard... ;-) -- David Wright "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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