Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

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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