SOLVED: Mandrake 9.2 install H/W problem (in a way)

[Keith Antoine]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:28 am, Net Llama! wrote:
SNIP

> I'm not convinced that thsi means that you have any explicit SATA support.
> It just means that the kernel is seeing the component on the motherboard.
>
> > hde: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63
> > ------------------------------>  <this is the 80 gig sata seagate drive>
> > Partition check:
> >  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13
> > p14 > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [4865/255/63] p2 < p5
> > p6 p7 > /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [9729/255/63] p2 < p5
> > >
>
> Maybe you do have SATA support, grepping through the 2.4.23 code, i see
> some drivers for sata.  Like i said earlier, i don't have any SATA
> hardware to play with, so i don't know much more than what i've read
> online.

When my son went back to Sydney I gave him a copy of Suse 8.2 I had lying 
around, that I did not want. To cut a long story short, he installed it when 
he got home, on boot it saw the sata drive which he had enabled again also 
the modem worked as it should too.

I have mentioned this anomily previously, in that, all the distributions and 
their individual versions vary on the 'mb,cpu,memory' combinations that
they will boot on. By this I have seen many install without a problem but not 
boot or do so and other parts do not work as they should.

Case in point, my machine combination: Does will not boot when I install 
Mandrake 9.2; 9.1 is fine. It karks it on bringing up iee1394 port, if I 
disable that it stops on my inbuild 3com card after that loopback.
Yet on a friends machine its the greatest since boiled pigs feet.

That seems to be the greatest failing of linux, the distributions fragment 
and a newcomer can find it difficult to decide what to use; t he can then 
still have problems. Caldera 2.4 was the exception, however I still remember, 
fanct me doing that, some problems with some users.

BTW, happy and prosperous New Year to all.

-- 
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161
Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage