Okay !! I dont know if you've taken a look at : http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/ or http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/newbies/ata66-100/
They almost parrot each other. But I'll be wrong to quote either here.
they both deals with old kernels who doesn't correctly recognize the controller (RedHat 6.2). But SuSE 8.0 uses the 2.4.18 kernel.. I tried to put another, formatted, well working drive on interface. Now it says: Partition check: hde: [PTBL] [784/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 > and here hangs too. :( -- -- Mario Libraro Fulltrading S.p.A. ------------------------------------ Sede di Roma: | Via Dora, 7 | 00198 Roma (RM) | :P Tel +39 06 8845203| Fax +39 06 8845227| ------------------------------------ Sede di Bari: Centro Direzionale Il Baricentro 70010 Casamassima (BA) Tel +39 080 6970153 Fax +39 080 4572485 Tech Support: 199 714 879