What sata control does it have?

lspci

-connie sieh

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:

> 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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