hi
i use a p5q asus motherboard that mainly uses sata but has an ide connector too.i have connected a dvd drive and a harddrive to it and in windows and suse the dvd drive is recognized without a driver but in windows it needs a driver to recognizes the ide harddrive but for the life of me I cant make suse recognize my ide harddrive.

its model is Marvell 88SE6121
can anyone help me?

hmm i'm not sure. you should research what chipset your IDE controller is and then see if its supported under SuSE. if it isn't you might want to look at a different distribution. the guts that makes that work is in the kernel. google should help with that.

if you mean it wont read your files, thats a different issue altogether. thats a fileystem (not IDE controller) and i'm sure that if windows can see your IDE drive, chances are, linux can too.

The Basics

You have set the jumpers on the drives to Master and Slave and attached the IDE cable with the Master at the end and the Slave in the middle? Have you tried another cable? Have you checked all the connections?

What happens if you disconnect the HDD and try a live-cd of openSUSE, or Ubuntu, or some other distro? Do you get a boot, and if so, is the other drive recognized? If you can not boot, try a USB flash drive to boot from. You might try all of this with the drives one at a time, one at a time switching Master and Slave, and as a pair switching Master and Slave.

If the drives work with Windows, they should work with any newer linux distribution unless there is something unusual with your IDE controller chip. You have Googled, I presume.

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its not the cable problem .. as i said it is recognized in windows with a driver installation.

and in both windows and linux my dvddrive that is attached to the same cable is recognize without a driver (how would i be able to install anything othewise ) ) but for harddrive that is attached to the same ide cable, in windows i have to install a driver and in linux it dowsnt recognize it at all.

btw when booting, even before grub looding and even before entering bios (if i press the del button ) it shows some messages about marvell ide dvd being recognized . i think it so that people can install an os in the first place.