Dear OpenSUSE experts:
I am a dual boot computer: Win 7 64 bit and OpenSUSE 11.2 64 bit. This computer has 3 hard drives: SSD, 500GB sata II, 1 TB sata 3.
SSD contains openSUSE 11.2
500GB sata II contains Win 7.
Win 7 sees the 500GB sata II drive and the 1 TB sata 3 drive.
openSUSE sees the SSD drive and the 500GB windows drive.
The Motherboard BIOS sees all 3 hard drives.
Is it openSUSE not support sata 3 drive? Or do I have to install special driver for it to see it in OpenSUSE?
phsieh
openSUSE sees the SSD drive and the 500GB windows drive.
What do you mean by see.
To check if openSUSE knows anything about the disks do
su - -c 'fdisk -l'
it asks for the root password and when you type this, nothing will show.
Post the output here (please between CODE tags).
Hi, hcw,
Thanks a lot for the reply!
I finally found the answer to this problem.
In BIOS, I changed the hard drive mode from IDE to AHCI. Now, both win 7 and OpenSUSE sees all the drives.
phsieh
Congrats on finding your own solution.
I still do not know wshat it means that an OS “sees” a drive. 
But as long as you are satisfied, that is OK to me.
RAMPAGE EXTREME III users please note:
In the BIOS settings go to the ADVANCED tab and change to AHCI there.
If you do this in the MAIN tab it woun’t work since you are altering the controller of the SATA 1 & 2 devices connected on a different chipset (e.g. DVD and other optical drives).
hcvv wrote:
>
> Congrats on finding your own solution.
>
> I still do not know wshat it means that an OS “sees” a drive.
Roughly: the OS will know whatever controllers it has attached
by “quering” the PCI bus - devices that have reported in as “disk
controllers” or “host bus adapter” (IDE, SATA, SCSI, FC etc) will
subsequently be queried to find out which devices they have attached.
If the communication fails somewhere along the line, the OS will
not “see” the drive.
–
Per Jessen, Zürich (31.1°C)
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Pjessen