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