Has anyone installed Mandrake on a Nforce 3-250 motherboard with SATA

[General Schvantzkoph]

Just got a new system, it has an MSI K8N-Neo2 Platinum motherboard
(Nforce 3-250 Ultra, AMD Athlon 64 3800+) with a Western Digital 200G SATA
drive. 64 Bit Fedora Core 3 installs and runs with no problem, however I
haven't been able to install Mandrake 10.1 (32 bit) or Mandrake 10.2 Beta.
The 10.1 install hangs when it gets to the point where it is installing
disk drivers. The 10.2 beta installer crashes with the message

hdc: media error (badsector): status=0x51 {Drive Ready SeekCompletion
Error}

It seems to me that Mandrake can't handle SATA drives but it could be that
it can't handle the Nforce 3-250 chipset. I have an AMD64 laptop also
(Nforce 3-150 chipset, PATA drive). Mandrake is extremely unstable on the
laptop while Fedora Core 3 (both 32 and 64) bit are completely solid, so
it would seem that Mandrake has problems with Nforce-3 chipsets.

My questions are,

1) Is any one running any species of Mandrake on an Nforce 3-250 based
mother board?

2) Is any one running Mandrake off of an SATA drive?

3) Is anyone running Mandrake off of an SATA drive connected to an Nforce
3-250 motherboard?

 

[n]

Just got a new system, it has an MSI K8N-Neo2 Platinum motherboard
(Nforce 3-250 Ultra, AMD Athlon 64 3800+) with a Western Digital 200G SATA
drive.

It seems to me that Mandrake can't handle SATA drives but it could be that
it can't handle the Nforce 3-250 chipset. I have an AMD64 laptop also
(Nforce 3-150 chipset, PATA drive). Mandrake is extremely unstable on the
laptop while Fedora Core 3 (both 32 and 64) bit are completely solid, so
it would seem that Mandrake has problems with Nforce-3 chipsets.

My questions are,

1) Is any one running any species of Mandrake on an Nforce 3-250 based
mother board?

I am responding from a system with the same MSI board as you describe.
It is running Mandrake 10.1 64 bit.

2) Is any one running Mandrake off of an SATA drive?

This is a SCSI system.

3) Is anyone running Mandrake off of an SATA drive connected to an
Nforce 3-250 motherboard?

Can't help with this question.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

I am responding from a system with the same MSI board as you describe.
It is running Mandrake 10.1 64 bit.


This is a SCSI system.

OK that says that the issue is SATA. The Fedora Core 3 kernel has an SATA
patch, Mandrake probably hasn't applied the patch yet.

 

[Chris Jackson]

OK that says that the issue is SATA. The Fedora Core 3 kernel has an SATA
patch, Mandrake probably hasn't applied the patch yet.

You know, this all totally depends on what hdc actually is. It could be any
device, since the original poster didn't include any details other than
mentioning SATA. hdc will be the third drive in the ide chain, could be a
cdrom, a zip drive, a hard drive, a ufo, who knows?