j0hncurrie@icqmail.com (John) writes:

> The boot process stops with the message
>
> hde: attached ide-disk driver
>
>
> hde is my only HD and its an S-ATA one. hda and hdb are assigned to
> the CD-ROM and DVD drive
>
> the BIOS setup for the IDE is 'enhanced' which basically lets me have
> 3 IDE channels (2 normal and 1 SATA with each having a master and
> slave - 6 drives in total) but the manual only tells me about Windows
> OS's and enhanced mode only works in 2k and XP (as far as I can
> remember) maybe I have to reduce the M/B IDE functions back to a basic
> level, I have not tried this but I will give it a go during the
> holidays.
>
>
> Also Suse Live CD 9.0 stops with exactly the same error.

This is a kernel issue, not specific to any distribution. This is
an active topic in the linux-kernel mailing list because support
for SATA is still under active development and not yet bug-free.

There have been several patches circulating there but I don't pay
much attention since I don't have any SATA drives. If you are
using a 2.4 kernel you might want to try a very recent 2.6-test
kernel instead. The drivers tend to be newer.