Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

On Thu, Nov 29, Denis Brown wrote:
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.

How exatly does one figure that out? If it has the Jmicron thing?

When 10.3 openSuSE came out I tried again. Bingo - success.

Will be trying that soon.

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.

Hmm. I can't quite figure out the whole master-slave port thing here.
I can only see what happens in the BIOS reporting as I move the
connections around on the motherboard. Putting both HD's into what
appeared to be "slave" ports got the BIOS to say "hey, I can't find
a master HD", not surprisingly. Also not surprisingly, SuSE didn't
find them either.

Oh, FWIW, acpi=off made the DVD detection fail..

Thanks.

Michael
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