hi, i am facing a problem in SuSE linux. Infact i had benn using 9.2 Professional on my AMD 64 Procssor with Simple IDE HDD. But now i purcahsed a new SATA HDD but 9.2 Pro does not detect and Install it.

So now i am going to buy 9.3 Pro [ Newly Lauched Version of Suse by Novell ] so please CAN ANY BODY TELL ME THAT WHETHER 9.3 Pro SuSE SUPPORT sata hdd or NOT ?

I've used SATA drives with 9.2 and now with 9.3 with no problems. I'd say the new version MIGHT help but I wouldn't count on it. It sounds like you're having some other issue.

I'm not an expert on the matter, but to get my sata drive to work under suse, I needed to go into the one of bios screen to create a raid. It wasn't the main bios screen, but the one right after the main bios. It was one provided by via... the company for my sata controller. I had to do this even though I had only one disk. I created an extended raid. Once I did this, suse detected it automatically.

I'm using SATA drives for a dual boot system. I had no problem installing Suse 9.2 & 9.3 on my system. It recognized the disks right away.

You don't nesseceraly have to create a raid. Why would you? In my opinion it doesn't make things really faster and it costs you harddrive space.

Anyhow, look into your Bios and check if your SATA is enabled. Does windows see the SATA disk? Cause if it doesn't you probably must activate the SATA i your bios.

Thanks " jess1975 " , but i forgot to mention in my thread that , on the same SATA HDD Windows XP is successfuly installed and running absolutely fine. but when i start the installation of SuSE 9.2 Pro on the same system and on the same SATA HDD , after a little initial installation steps, when yast starts detecting Hardwares attached to the system. It shows that There is no HDD dectected on your system.

What you say about it.

If SATA is disabled in BIOS then how win xp could have been installed. So please quote some thing..

thanks , once again for your kind reply.

Try a failsafe installation. Maybee that helps you.

Hi,
I got fed up with winxp crashing more often when I installed SP2, so I got a second sata drive and installed suse 9.3 on it.
All went well. Suse found both drives. As I intended to use them as two independent drives, I did not create a raid set. After installing suse (even my old haupauge tv card works out of the suse box :-), I checked that I can still boot windows from the grub menu. That worked. The intension was to use windows for occational games.
Anyway I booted back to suse for a few hours. I then wanted to go back to Windows a second time.
This time the boot froze after the grub text mode message (before it switches to the graphics mode menu).
When using the repair option on the suse CD, all partition tables seem to be ok, but it can't recognise the main linux partition (presumably this is where it reads the boot menu from).

Has my linux partition been corrupted? Is it something I should have done that would have prevented this? Should I just re-install and hope for the best...?
Someone mentioned extended raid, is that some kind of a raid set (other then striping or mirroring) that will allow me to use the drives as I want without reformating my windows HD? Would it have help prevent my problem?

Any views welcome.

Mons