Re: Problems with serial ata

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:38:59PM -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> The hardware I'm using is a Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard (Silicon sata 
> chip) , using a seagate disk (not configured as raid). The OS is 
> installed on a parallel ata disk and has worked for a long time without 
> problems. The problem happens when I remove "hde=noprobe" from the boot 
> line to detect the serial ata disk (it is being recognized as hde).
> The system locks and no messages appear on /var/log/messages . On the 
> other O$, it works perfectly...

You may need a BIOS update with Nvidia chipset systems (especially older
ones) and SI3112.