Larry Linder wrote:
> System:  small ATA board manufactured by GIGABIT K8 Trinitron.
> This system currently runs SUSE 9.1 64 bit.
> It has two disks one 250G that I use for /
> and the other is a 500G SATA that is partitioned /engr
> 
> I disconnected the OS disk SATA 1 and installed a new blank disk. Booted
> with a DVD containing SL 5.3 (dvd checked good)  It get so far into the 
> 
> installation - disk support - and it hangs up with no error message just 
> 
> dies in its tracks.
> 
> The SL 5.3 installs fine on a large SCSI system, there is something wrong
>  
> with the SATA driver - contained in SL 5.3
> 
> Any way to determine what the failure is and is there a patch?
> 
> Larry Linder

Hi Larry,
Unlike IDE, SATA hardware is constantly being updated and changed, but 
if SUSE 9.1 ran on it, then it is quite strange that SL 5.3 wouldn't 
recognize it.
When you go into the BIOS, does it see the drives?
And what are the BIOS SATA drive settings?

Troy
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