Re: [suse-amd64] Status of Serial ATA support [Virus checked US]

I disabled the Serial ATA drive and installed a 60GIG standard ATA133 drive. I installed Windows on this drive to confirm all the hardware was working and it was. In went the SUSE 9.0 PRO for AMD 64 DVD I paid $200 for, it displayed the install menu, I selected INSTALL and it start to boot. It

Hi Rodrigo As I'm somewhat (totally!) new to using RAID, can you tell me what would happen to my existing XP system if I alter the raid settings? Do you know if I will lose data when messing with the settings? For instance if I wished to remove the RAID and revert to using the two striped drives to act as two single drives, would I lose everything on the drives? I suspect I would - as nothing in computers is easy :-( Thanks for your reply it was good to read, however I'm dismayed that the drivers may be another year .... I have a PII400, so I suppose it will have to make do for a little while yet! Brazil - wow what a world the Internet is .... Pete England ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodrigo V Monteiro" To: Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Status of Serial ATA support [Virus checked US] Hello Pete, Yes, I read your reply and found your machine a splendid one setup. Mine setup involves a ATA133- 80GB disc layouted like this: hda1 - Windows 2000 (just for games) hda2 - /boot for Slackware hda3 - /boot for Suse 9.0 AMD64 hda4 - extended like this: hda5: Windows data volume hda6: Linux Swap for both ones hda7: / for Slackware hda8: / for Suse Just keeping boot partitions at the begining of the disc to play safe with IDE issues. I had Suse 8.2 installed before but I am not sure if I had problems booting it with SK8N (I had similiar problems with an older K7 board). When installing Suse 9-64bit I got no problems with the boot CD but the first reboot would not work stopping after discs messages. I booted safe option grom GRUB, added the 3 parameters to it (ide=nodma apm=no acpi=no) and everything went fine. I took out ide=dma and got the regular boot, so I need to isolate the apm and acpi yet. The setup is 2 days old so I haven't time to play around with it. I do intend to buy next AMD64 Suse version with new Kernel and SATA drivers (the 64-bit is not sold here yet so I had to download it for awhile). Also I do believe Suse will provide them soon since SK8N is the most popular board for Opteron/64-FX processor. As it goes on the list, SATA chipset used in this board is still not well supprted or designed. People advise to buy a well supported board for SATA and RAID. Unfortunatelly there is no SATA drivers easily to be found in Brazil to test it. It should be a year until it caches up. If I can be of any help, just let me know. (Embedded image moved to file: pic00153.gif) (Embedded image moved to file: O: +55 11 F: +55 11 EY/Comm: pic00292.gif)Rodrigo De 3523-5494 3078-1105 4776668 Vincenzo Monteiro "Pete Bradbury" ury.org.uk> cc: Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Status of Serial ATA support [Virus checked US] 12/01/2004 12:36 Hi Rodrigo Was yours a dual boot or a standalone? I ask because I have a similar setup - perhaps you've read my reply to this thread along the way? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodrigo V Monteiro" To: Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Status of Serial ATA support [Virus checked US] Hi Dave, not sure if it helps but when I installed Suse 8.2 and Suse 9.0 64-bit in my SK8N board with ATA133 I only was able to reboot it using ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off parameters at boot line in GRUB. These parameters are listed at Safe Boot menu option. This same problem happend to me with an older board during install boot and I could proceed normally using the safe boot option from the install menu. I still have to trim down which of the 3 parameters I can exclude from the boot line so to disable functions. ide=nodma should slow down disc performance a bit but I would have to benchmark how much. Hope that helps. (Embedded image moved to file: pic26299.gif) (Embedded image moved to file: O: +55 11 F: +55 11 EY/Comm: pic17035.gif)Rodrigo De 3523-5494 3078-1105 4776668 Vincenzo Monteiro Andreas Jaeger To: cc: 12/01/2004 06:12 Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Status of Serial ATA support "Dave Reid" writes: then

promptly seized up at exactly the same place it did before as below:

Starting hardware detection

...

misc.1.3 read floppy - then nothing.

This so far was always a BIOS bug. So, please buy next time correctly working hardware. Workarounds: - Add "idle=poll" to the linuxrc command line (where you choose the boot options) - Disable legacy USB support Which of these two will help, depends on the exact problem and the BIOS bug.

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