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by **Axel Burwit** » Tue, 25 Nov 2003 01:20:00

Hi !

Hope for help in my problem:

Have a SATA disk as first disk (with Win XP) on first channel (second on
OFF) , and a IDE disk with my Suse Linux 9.0 as first on this second
channel (second on this channel on OFF).

When I keep the SATA disk actvated in BIOS, Linux boot hangs always with
"hdf: probing with STATUS (0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS (0x50)"...

When I deactivate the SATA disk in BIOS, Linux boots nicely.

Now that this is a bit annoying, and postings in newsgroups indicate that
Linux must be able to handle SATA (BTW other than Suse Support told me),
so there must be a solution !

Cheers,

Axel

by **Rick Moe** » Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:24:38

> Hope for help in my problem:

> Have a SATA disk as first disk (with Win XP) on first channel (second on
> OFF) , and a IDE disk with my Suse Linux 9.0 as first on this second
> channel (second on this channel on OFF).

Well, you'd probably have better luck if you at least identified your
SATA chipset or at _least_ what motherboard is involved. Absent that,
my Web page might help a bit:

"Serial ATA" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware .

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Linux boot proc hangs with a SATA disk activated in BIOS

Linux boot proc hangs with a SATA disk activated in BIOS

Linux boot proc hangs with a SATA disk activated in BIOS