Hello, I am building a brand new box (K8T master with a VIA SATA controller and one Opteron) and since I saw that SuSE provides a patch CD with the SATA drivers I bought two SATA drives (Samsung). I downloaded the iso image of the patch CD and burned it. Now, I can boot with the 9.0 patch CD and I can pick my menu point from the bootloader (installation). Yast starts nicely and I can pick my language. However, on the next step, Yast searches eternally for the harddisk controllers! The hourglas is milling around but nothing happens. If I pick a different menu point (driver modules instead of installation) and check which drivers are loaded then there are some sata drivers. Still, the installer hangs. Be aware that I have no IDE disk in this box! Yes, I could buy one and probably compile a kernel with the right modules but this is somehow a lot of work and it does not feel like a clean solution. Besides, I would have to stand the jokes of my wife, who is an NT administrator :-) Well, I think I need a bit of help... regards, einar