Hello Michael.
Sounds similar to my issue with 10.1 - drive unrecognised. Same with 10.2
IIRC
ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to
install. As it happened Ubuntu (7.0.4??) installed fine and I was content
for a while.
When 10.3 openSuSE came out I tried again. Bingo - success.
In my case it gets more interesting... I have four SATA drives, one system
drive at 80 gig and three data drives in software RAID5 at 320 gig each.
The only way I could get things to work - tried a lot of BIOS settings,
too! - was to set the system drive to be on SATA port 4 (/dev/sdd) and then
the magic happened.
By the way, you may profit from upgrading the motherboard BIOS. Mine was
0302 and I had very strange CPU core temperature readings - 40 degrees
idle, 60 degrees running gklxgears. Upgraded to the latest no-Beta BIOS
(0704) and that problem has gone away. Mind you the drive setup is a bit
different between 0302 and 0704.
Also be warned - you cannot regress at least not from 0704 to 0302. Your
mileage may vary :-)
HTH,
Denis
At 12:13 PM 29/11/2007, Michael Fischer wrote:
New machine:
Asus M2N-VM mobo (NVIDIA GeForce 6100 chipset)
2 WD800JD 80G SATA2
PIONEER DVD-RW SATA
SuSE 10.1 (10.3 on the way, but I wanted to test the box)
This thing has 4 SATA slots on the mobo. Near as I can figure it
the order (when looking in the box at the board looks like
2 3
1 4
by experimentation with cables and what the BIOS says.
All drives are recognized by the BIOS.
Here's the problems:
Only with the DVD-RW in slot 1 can SuSE figure out that the
installation media is present
(c.f. http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CD_not_found_problem)
but it *is* an SATA drive, one which works fine for installation
in the machine on which I am typing this email.
With the DVD-RW in slot 1, Installation begins, but the installer
says it can't find any hard drives.
Kernel messages show
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
Install with "Safe Settings" didn't help.
Google shows various people having similar issues, but seemingly
with different motherboards. Not sure if there's a driver which
needs to be loaded or what.
Following url has decent-looking specs of this motherboard:
http://www10.uk.shopping.com/xPF-ASUS-ASUS-M2N-VM-DH-mainboard-micro-ATX-nForce-430
Does SATA2 put me in trouble here?
Thanks in advance.
Michael
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