Bug 135644
| Summary: | Installer doesn't work with SATA drive | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Rexioo <rexiooman> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | davej, nobody+pnasrat, peterm, rafiq_maniar, tjb |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-10-03 00:03:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 123268, 136451 | ||
How reproducible: Always I have the same problem with a Dell Precision 370 using the Intel 925x chipset. The ata_piix and libata modules are loaded but no disks are seen. I'm using FC3RC2 for X86_64. To be clear, the installer informs me that no disks are found and quits. Nothing crashes or hangs. Turns out to be a BIOS setting. I ordered the machine with two 80GB disks and Dell set the BIOS SATA configuration to RAID. Setting it to COMBINATION works. The problem with the above solution is that after I make the BIOS changes, my windows XP won't boot - that is until I change the BIOS settings back. That means that every time I want to boot the other OS, I have to adjust the BIOS. It is slightly inconvenient - especially when I need to reboot the machine remotely... An additional problem with the solution listed above is that setting the BIOS to Combination mode in effect enables Parallel-ATA emulation of the hard drives, resulting in a performance drop. Possibly a better solution is to set it to RAID Autodetect/ATA instead. This will allow the drives to operate in native SATA mode. See http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml for more information. Caveat: You can't use the "hardware" RAID (its actually the driver/firmware that performs the RAID functions)... Linux software RAID is a good option though. The root cause of the problem is that Dell ship the 370 with the SATA operation mode set to RAID Autodetect/AHCI as default. The kernels up to and including FC3 (and possibly the very latest kernel.org one, I don't know offhand) don't have the AHCI support needed for this to work. An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you. This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Boot kernel from Fedora Core Test 3 doesn't work on Abit KV8-MAX3 Chipset VIA with Serial ATA drive. During the SCSI drivers loading the installer always stops. Especially during the sata_via driver loading. This problem always occur in the Fedora Core versions. Hardware: Hard disk: Seagate 80GB Serial ATA Mainboard: Abit KV8-MAX3 with chipset VIA Processor: AMD 64 (Fedora Core uses under 32-bit or 64-bit architecture) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sata_via How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Fedora Core Test 3 installer 2. Load SCSI -> sata_via 3. Additional info: