I gathered this info from a forum: * S-ATA support became much better in 9.1 (2.6.3 kernel), but was already present in 9.0 ( 2.4 Kernel). So chances are it might support it fully in 9.2
* Mandrake 10.0 or 10.1 appears to detect S-ATA with no problems. Maybe you plan of using an IDE HD as a boot disk and hooking the S-ATA up as the slave later would be a better option. Anyroads, I hope you get it fixed! - Alan R Original Message: ----------------- From: Colin.Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:43:32 +0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes Thanks for the info lads. I reckon the problem is with the SATA disks and I'll have to find a way to get round it. If nothing else comes up I'll take Danny's advice and fit a (non-SATA) disk toget an install done and sort out the disk problem afterwards. Merry Christmas, Colin Kenny Kerr wrote: >I had problems installing 9.0 on a laptop. the problem was no packages >found during the install, due to a 'known issue' with CDRW/DVD combo drives. >I can't remember what the workaround was but it took me a couple of days to >sort it out. > >Cheers > >Kenny >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Colin Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "SLUG-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:55 PM >Subject: [Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes > > > > >>Hi all, >> >>Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), >>512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, >>DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, >>TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box >>(if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began! >> >>I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First >>I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the >>keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to >>replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. >>But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so >>decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution >>I've used on other machines since it was released. >> >>Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go. >> >>Has anyone any idea how I might get around this one? Might it be BIOS >>settings that are causing the problem? If ned be I'll dust off the >>wallet and spring for 9.2. >> >>Any suggestions gratefully received and a happy Christmas to all, >> >>Colin >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Scottish mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Scottish mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > > _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
