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Originally Posted by ronlau9
If you like to use opensuse why not opensuse 11.0 , it is out now a few weeks ago.
You can use KDE 4 or kde 3.5 or Gnome or any other GUI , it just what you like to install
My self start with KDE and install GNOME afterwards , so I can use them both
All modern distro support sata CDs
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Thanks for the info. Would it be possible to use opensuse 11.0 with JRE 1.4? Yes, I know it is an old version of JRE (I think the most recent is 1.6 or so) but in order to install this software, JRE 1.4 is a requirement.
Also (i know it is not part of this thread - but -since you mentioned SATA CDs)
When I used SLES 10, I got the items listed below (when running 'dmesg' I suppose). But it seems as though the STAT CD is not being picked up - but - the SATA HD is being picked up (I think).
The machine is HP Pavilion a6500f. I thought the problem was with SLES 10 (hence my try with Opensuse). In other words, I am thinkint it is faulty software. Do you think that it could be a problem with the machine and if so, I should work on taking it back instead?
TIA
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 Cmd 0x9F0 ct1 0xBF2 bdma 0xF700 irq 201
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 Cmd 0x9F0 ct1 0xBF2 bdma 0xF708 irq 201
scsi0: sata_nv
ata1: SATA link up <unknown> (SStatus A3229F03 SControl 0)
ata1.00: ATA-8, max UDMA7 976773168 Sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16
ata1.00: Drive reports diagnostics failure. This may indicate a drive
ata1.00 fault or invalid emulation. Contact vendor for information
ata1.00 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1: sata_nv
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x977 Vendor: ATA Model : SAMSUNG HD501LS Rev: CR10
Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI Revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108MB)
sda: Write protect off