Hi,

I'm running Mandrake 9.2RC1 (kernel 2.4.22) and I can't make work S-ATA boot drive and Intel Pro onboard network.

The Asus P4C800E-Dlx in the only mainboard in the P4x800 family with ICH5R and Intel 82547EI (Gb onboard chip, it uses e1000 driver).

The chips share the same IRQ :

# grep eth0 /proc/interrupts
17: 83 IO-APIC-level Intel ICH5, eth0
(note that there's no error about this in syslog)

1) Boot on S-ATA drive / Mandrake 9.2RC1 with "acpi=off"
-> boot OK, but no ping, "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out" in syslog.
(full log and config on http://plochon.free.fr/mdk92RC1.html )

2) Boot on S-ATA drive / Mandrake 9.2RC1 with "acpi=off" and "noapic"
-> boot hang (when displays "hde: attached ide_disk driver" where hde is the S-ATA boot drive)

3) Same tests but boot on CD with Knoppix 3.3 (Kernel 2.4.22)
-> same results

4) S-ATA drive physically removed, boot on CD / Knoppix 3.3 with "acpi=off" and "noapic"
-> boot OK, network OK : it works !

Is there a way to make S-ATA and Intel Pro work together, or is it an incompatibility ?

Thanks,
Philippe

My hardware configuration:
P4C800E-Dlx, P4C@2.6Ghz, 256Mb, 1 Seagate S-ATA drive plugged on standard S-ATA connector (-> not on S-ATA RAID connector)
IDE Bios settings :
Onboard IDE operate mode : Enhanced mode
Enhanced mode support on : S-ATA
Configure S-ATA as RAID : No

I also have a similar hardware config and cannot boot my system with SUSE 9 Pro and am hoping to resolve this. If anyone has any idea on what the problem may be as I am not much of a linux pro but I am a user of the greatest OS ever developed

From what I have read some have this problem but I have yet to find the answer :/ It would be great to get the system up and running as I am using my wifes PC till I get this resolved. She likes that, she claims it is one more reason not to use linux but I always disagree.

Mobo- ASUS P4C800-E deluxe
CPU - Intel P4 3.2
Ram - 4 x 512 PC3200
HDD - SATA - WD Raptor 74Gb.
Promise Raid SATA - 2 x WD Raptor 36Gb.
Net - On Board Intel Gigabit (internet & network)
- + USR 2977 modem
Video - Geforce FX5900
Sound - Audigy 2
Drive - Plextor 708 DVDr/rw

This morning I decided to give a few other distro's to see if I could get them installed. This morning I have installed Mandrake 9.2 without a flaw. I am very happy to have a distro on my system but am hoping to still get my Suse back in line. Any help would be appreciated as to why I can load one and not the other :/

Like I have said before I am a hardware guy and well I ain't no software guru but I try

im running mandrake 10 now, it runs smoothly so far.
asus p4c800-e
p4 2,8
2 x 512 pc3200
sata wd raptor 36gb
radeon 9800 pro

i have tried out alot of distros before i tried mandrake 10, that was the only one i got to work. i belive you need that 2.6 kernel because of the sata controller or something

Opticus,

I have almost the exact config as you (slightlu faster CPU and a different SATA HD), however, I have had no luck getting the 3D accelerated XFree86 RADEON 9800 PRO driver working without consistently hard hanging the system when the X server tries to load. Do you have the ATI Linux drivers installed or are you using the generic RADEON drivers that are available in Mandrake 10?

Joe

jdasilva,

I dont know, how do i tell?

Hi,

I'm just installed Mandrake 10 today. Everything ran very smooth, unfortunatelly the default installation can't get my onboard network to work. When I boots up the Mandrake, it freezed forever in the "Starting up eth0.." procedure. I've to press "Restart" button to force a reboot.

Does anybody has the same experience? Can you tell me how you solve the problem?


Here's my setup:
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe P4 2.8C
ASUS Radeon 7000
2x S-ATA Seagate Hard drive (not in RAID mode)

Has anyone considerd upgrading to 2.6.6 kernal and compiling support in?

I am using a card that has the sis 964 chipset and i just compiled it right in, and it worked.

I also had to compile in support for booting off board chipsets, but im told ure mileage may vary, depending on ur mobo and bios

also y not try using slackware, its a bit harder to set up, but u can make anything work if u try hard enough