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Problem installing Linux in Intel 965RY

Im new to Linux,my hardware details is below

Intel 965RY
Intel pentium D(3.4Gghz)
1gb DDR2 RAM(667mhz)
200gb SATA hard disk
Samsung DVDR/DVDRW and Sony DVDR

I try to install mandriva 2007,Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10,
but when i tried to install it, i got "CDROM not found" in both the case. So can anyone help me out.

Besides this in any DOS application, i always have a problem in loading CDROM driver. the applications cannot load due to failed in loading CDROM driver, so i got "No CDROM drive found"
In hiren bootCD also, i cannot run all those partitionning tools, since it cannot load the CDROM driver.

Please help me out.

Thank you....

Thanks jay73, let me take alook at this page and contact u later

if i buy IDE controller,will the problem be solved???

It works wonders on my ASUS P5B (965 based), has been doing so for the last nine months. I suspect the Intel motherboard is affected by the same IDE/SATA issue so I would say that there is a very good chance it will work for you too. I've been doing some research and I keep reading the problem with Intel 965 boards is really the Marvell IDE controller, which isn't properly supported by Linux at this time. By connecting your optical drive(s) to a controller card, you wouldn't be using them so that should work.

There are three options:

get an IDE controller card (I use the Promise TX 133 and can confirm it is fully Linux compatible)
get a SATA cd/DVD player
try the latest release of Mandriva (2007.1 Cooker, ie the beta version of the upcoming Mandriva 2007.1); this is the first one that installed from the onboard IDE controller; then again, your IDE controller is not the JMicron one so I can't be sure that you'll be succesful too.

kk i'll buy that controller and thanks for your wonderful advice. i think it will work, i also think its because of the IDE issue

And will this issue also be the reason why i can't start all those DOS application where i got an error "No CDROM found" by the time loading CDROM driver is encountered.
Any suggestions???

Well yes, and it all makes sense doesn't it? The first part of the installer gets pushed onto the system so there isn't any problem to get through the very first stage; but the problems begin as soon as that first part actively takes over and reaches for the cd/dvd to grab the rest of the files to install: because Linux doesn't know how to handle the IDE controller, it doesn't find any disk and gives up.

As I said, I do think there's a very good chance you can get it to work by getting a Linux compatible controller card; after all there are many people with older mobos who don't have these issues with Sata disks. Anyway, it's up to you to decide whether it's worth the money. These cards aren't overly expensive but most of the major distributions are currently preparing their next release and the issue may be solved by then (although I read the alpha release of SUse 10.3 still doesn't show any improvement). In my case, it's actually quite handy. I had a few PATA disks lying around that I couldn't use anymore because most recent motherboards provide only one IDE controller; now I can hook up all the PATA disks that I want.

Btw, another amusing thing is this: Suse, Debian etc refused to install from the onboard IDE controller so I had to use the controller card instead; but once installed, they could see and use the onboard IDE without any problem. How frustrating is that?

Thanks jay73 for your information and help...i'm planning to buy the controller next month, hop e will solved the problem

I recieved this mail few minutes back...

Quote:

Hello Alan,

Thank you for contacting Intel(R) Technical Support.

As far as we understand, you need DOS drivers for the CD-ROM; if so, we confirm that after doing further research, we were able to locate an old Creative Labs driver that could help. The following are the instructions you need to follow:

1. http://www.driverzone.com/dsp3.php?id=87&cat=4&pass

From the URL above, downloaded the following driver: sbided95.exe and then used only the SDIDE.SYS that is in this self-extracting zip file.

2. Attach CD-ROM drive to Marvell PATA as master drive.

3. Boot the system to DOS.

4. Using a DOS PCI configuration tool, get the following values from the Marvell PATA controller. Most likely, the Marvell PATA controller will be at bus 0x02, device 0x00, function 0x00:

A. Base address 0 of the Marvell PATA. This will be a DWORD value at PCI register 0x10. Clear bit0 of this value and record the number. For example, if the value of PCI register 0x10 is 0x1019, record 0x1018.

B. IRQ assigned to the Marvell device. This BYTE value will be in register 0x3C. This value needs to be read from DOS and not Windows* as Windows will change this value when it switches the system to ACPI APIC mode.

C. Base address 2 of the Marvell PATA. This will be a DWORD value at PCI register 0x20. Clear bit0 of this value and record the number. For example, if the value of PCI register 0x20 is 0x1011, record 0x1010.

5. After the values are obtained, edit CONFIG.SYS to run SBIDE.SYS with those values:

DEVICE=SBIDE.SYS /V /D:nnn /P:xxxx,yy,zzzz where nnn is the CD device name, xxxx is the I/O base address (in hex) found in step A above, yy is the IRQ value (in decimal) found in step B above, and zzz is the I/O base address (in hex) found in step C above.
For example, on my passing setup (Windows* 98 Boot Floppy) I had the following line in CONFIG.SYS: DEVICE=SBIDE.SYS /V /D:MSCD001 /P:1018,10,1010

Note: Since we do not own the driver (it is an old Creative Labs driver); thus, a link to an URL is provided. We do not have the DOS PCI configuration utility (pci.exe) either; you will need to find one. The Base addresses and IRQ provided with the instruction should be the defaults for most of the Intel(R) G965-based boards.

Sincerely,

Salem W.
Intel(R) Technical Support

I have recieved this mail from Intel technical support.
Can you please take a look at this, i didn't try it out yet.
do you think it will solved the problem....
????