[Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes

[alan at nonsite.co.uk]

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:
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From: Colin.Fraser Colin.Fraser at riverfern.co.uk
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:43:32 +0000
To: scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk
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" <Colin.Fraser at riverfern.co.uk>
>To: "SLUG-list" <scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:55 PM
>Subject: [Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes
>
>
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>>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
>>
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