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I recently have purchased two new hardware products, SATA Western Digi Raptor 10,000 HDD and a SATA Plextor 716SA.
Prob:
I was origanally running Suse 9.2 x86_64 Professional but when I could not get the install to detect my Plextor I gave up. In search of a new x86_64 Distro I found Mandrake 10.2rc beta 2. After installing it (not with the Plextor) looks like the Plextor is also not detecting in this distro. I am new two mandrake and consider myself a newbie even though I been running linux for about a year now.
I have been searching for a similar issue with no luck. Please help for my next option is to install windows
System Info:
AMD 64 +3000
Asus K8V-Deluxe
SATA 36gig Western Digital 10,000 Raptor
SATA Plextor PX-716SA
IDE Sony 10x/4x/32x
Radeon 9800 Pro
512 3200 DDR
I have Mandriva 2005 LE 64 bit on an NVIDIA4 chipset, where and I can read & write CD-ROMs and read DVDs on my Plextor 716SA. But alas, burning DVDs still eludes me, and apparently, everyone else on this board. All I can reccomend is to keep looking here until someone solves this mystery.
Thanks for the update Dave, at least you can mount the drive and even burn cd-r's. I don't know if this help anyone with this question but 1 out of 5 boots the system will stop at start of boot and give this error:
scsi scan: 96 byte inquiry failed Consider BLIST_INQUIRY_36 for the device.
could BLIST have something to do with "Black Listing"? I read some post about black listing hardware but I do not know where to find this file or what is exactly is.
It looks to me that there is only a 32 bit driver for mandrake 9.1 and 64 & 32 bit driver for suse 9.1. I tried to install but with no luck...I can't believe know one else is having this issue. Also where can I check for Mandrake 10.2 x64 updates???
ok well my updater wasn't working..the url link was wrong so i had to edit. Still I was having problems installing pakages through the update manager. I had to manually download some packages and install them (drakx). Could you go to Applications -> System -> Configurations -> Packaging -> Software Media Manger and tell me what url you use? thanks!
Anyways, I updated Harddrake and still my Plextor SATA will not show up nor can i configure it. I guess i need to find VIA VT8237 x86_64 bit drivers for this board.
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