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[Waldo 6000]

I try to run the OpenSUSE 10.1 LiveDVD on my computer (spec. below) and every time, the computer hangs early on with the first blue screen (before it lets me select KDE/Gnome) and the CD drive access lgiht stops flashing. After reading about problems with SATA controllers, I unplugged my SATA drives and tried again but with success (able to load LiveDVD). Since my motherboard is listed as fully compatible with OpenSUSE, why do I have this problem? How might I tackle it? If it involves programming or compiling my own anything, I'm out of luck...

[Blazer]

     maybe XP

[Waldo 6000]

Are you suggesting that I stick to using Windows XP or that WinXP is the cause of the problem?

[Ex Forum User]

Not sure of this but here goes http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html   Hope this helps DOK

[Stu]

Suse 10.1 is quite a (relatively) old version now, surprised there hasn't been a recent newer distribution

the big problem with Linux is getting drivers to run stably on newer hardware; you might want to look at an alternative distribution which is more up-to-date for best driver support

Windows XP, as the most popular OS in the world (i would imagine at least ), will always have the best hardware support, especially with newer hardware

[Waldo 6000]

If I find out how to enable legacy PATA mode will this affect the RAID 0 currently set up on these SATA drives and what kind of performance impact might I expect? Is there really a need to transfer more than 133 MB/s?