I am currently trying to install suse 9.2 pro onto my machine which has the following components:

DFI nforce 2 u400s-al motherboard
AMD 1700+ tbred proc
250 gig Maxtor SATA hd (has windows xp installed onto 20 gigs worth of the hd, the other 230 isnt partitioned)
2 IDE DVD Player/Burner

The problem:
After I boot from the dvd, during the detecting of the hardware SUSE says that I have no HD's to install on.

I figure that SUSE just doenst have anything to work with the controller with., kind of like when you install windows xp and you have to hit f6 in order to get the hd's to recognize.

So my question is basicly asking for help with this problem, I'm not good with linux at all and I need help installing it with my hardware.


TY,
Sergei

I dont know if it works in suse (switched to ide because of same problem) but when I installed some distro I put sata.i in the prompt and it worked. And on top of that you want to use lilo as the bootloader for linux.

In 9.2 you should check if module for SATA controller (where your disk is attached) is up, you may need to load it first before proceeeding with installation

How do I load the module for SATA controller during the SUSE 9.2 install?

TY
for response
Sergei

You can load modules in a 'Manual Installation'. Remember that you have to load all required hardware modules manually. Also the filesystem driver!

Hi, if you check the Suse website the offical line is that the only way to see a SATA hard drives is if you can set the BIOS to legacy mode for 32 bit and there are no or will be a patch available. With a 64 bit processor it's another story. Anyway check this link out

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/01/sata.html

as it explains it a lot better than me.

i love my slacky, it supports SATA HDD

JayaKrishnan