[SOLVED] sata 3.0 support in OpenSUSE 11.2?

[phsieh2005]

Dear Linux experts,

My computer has 3 hard drives: 1 SSD, 1 sata II, 1 sata 3. This is a dual boot system contains OpenSUSE 11.2 64 bit OS and Win 7 64 bit OS.

the SSD drive has OpenSUSE, and the sata II has Win 7.

Win 7 sees the sata II and sata 3 drives, while OpenSUSE only sees the SSD hard drive and the sata II drive. Even in partitioner in OpenSUSE does not see the sata 3 drive. Is sata 3 (6 gb/s) supported in OpenSUSE 11.2?

phsieh2005

[gogalthorp]

Let us see output of
as root
fdisk -l

[phsieh2005]

Let us see output of
as root
fdisk -l

Hi, gogalthorp,

the output is below:

phsieh
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huwei:/home/phsieh/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04e99213

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 60802 488282112 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15566 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00045232

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 2874 15566 101956522+ 83 Linux

[phsieh2005]

Hi,

I found the solution to this problem. In bios, the hard drive was set to IDE mode. I re-set all hard drives to AHCI, now openSUSE sees the sata 3 drive.

phsieh