roarl

Apparently, the SuSE 8.2 kernel was prepared for S-ATA, the only thing I had to do was: % hdparm -X66 -d1 /dev/hde Now I have 54 MB/sec. But not after a lot of tries and crashes... The difficult thing was the "-X66" bit.

I have installed SuSE 8.2 (kernel 2.4.20) on a brand new machine with a7n8x deluxe mbo and a Seagate SATA disk. The disk controller (ide2) is recognized as SATA, but is set up in PIO mode during boot. Furthermore, the machine crashes if I try to enable DMA with hdparm. The result is an agonizing 1.3 MB/s tranfer rate. Any ideas? The driver for sil3112 from Asus that you mentioned sounds promising, but I can't find it. All I found for a7n8x deluxe for Linux was an all-in-one nForce driver, and I got that from nVidia instead. Please direct me! -- roarl