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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:50 AM

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.

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:51 AM

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.

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:51 AM

walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<86d6axj1zw.fsf@hotmail.com>...
>
> 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.

Thanks, I just wanted to get one of the live distros working to have
as a rescue disk, I have tried a few more and :-

Suse and Gentoo - problem as above
Morphix - Prints an error "only one processor found" and hangs.
Knoppix - Works (so I will use that for the moment) but it also prints
the "only one processor found" like Morphix but continues to boot OK.

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