can't find SATA drive when installing openSuSE

mhykgyver · 12-22-2006, 05:47 PM

Hi ya' all, this would be the first time I'll be installing openSuSE in a dual core machine equipped with a SATA drive...whenever I try to install openSuSE, it just can't find the HD...any help is greatly appreciated...

GrueMaster · 12-22-2006, 09:20 PM

Need more information. What motherboard? You said "Dual Core". That could be almost any motherboard released in the last year for Intel or AMD.

Please be more specific with your request. We're good, but not that good.

larsma · 12-26-2006, 04:00 AM

I have what seems to be a similar problem. My hardware are:

Computer: FujitsuSiemens Scaleo H
Processor: AMD 64 4200+ AM2
Mother board: MB mikroATX NV A64 AM2 PCle - RoHS Cool'n'quiet (some ATI chipset)
Graphic: Nvidia GeForce 7600GS
Hard discs: Western Digital SATA II 2x160GB

The only distros, I have tried (and they are a lot), that can be installed and bootable are Zenwalk and VectorLinux. Other distros hang or will not detect the hard discs.

mhykgyver · 12-27-2006, 10:24 AM

My apologies for this one, was on a long holiday....here are the specs for the PC (can't get any more info as this is a company-issued PC and can't open the machine)...

Shuttle ss30g2 SE with SiS 662+966 chipset

Hope this helps..

bhuskey · 12-27-2006, 12:43 PM

I am having the same issue on a Dell Poweredge 850 with a 3ghz dual core. It has an Intel chipset. Dell said that Novell certified Suse Enterprise 9 x86_64 for this server, but, I am having the hardest time installing the OS on this machine. The installer can not find the SATA drives. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

google01103 · 12-27-2006, 03:11 PM

Usually this kind of problem is that the mb (and/or sata controller) does not have support in the kernel. If you can install one distro but not a diff. you should compare the versions of the kernel and limit your potential installs to those with a minimum kernel version that worked. Larsma I would guess you need minimally a 2.1.18.5 kernel which in SUSE is available in the factory tree.