Bug 503274

Summary: libata doesn't detects pata with ICH7
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jonas Jonsson <jonas>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jonas Jonsson 2009-05-30 14:51:01 UTC
Description of problem:
I'm trying to install Fedora 11 preview on Intel SS4200-EHW. The motherboard has a Intel ICH7 chipset with 4 sata ports and one pata. The problem is that ata_piix doesn't detect the pata disks, (Two Kingston 4Gb CompactFlash, tried a normal pata disk as well). Bios detects the disk just fine and the EDD module reports 6 disks which is correct.

IDE mode in bios, ata_piix detects the sata disks
sh-4.0# lspci -nn -s 00:1f.2
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c0] (rev 01)

AHCI mode in bios, ahci driver detects the sata disks
sh-4.0# lspci -nn -s 00:1f.2
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c1] (rev 01)

If I boot a Gentoo minimal installation (20090526) CD that has the old IDE layer, the kernel detects the pata disks.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.29.1-102.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot Fedora 11 Preview on Intel SS4200-EHW
2. Installer doesn't show any pata disks.
3. *Sigh*
  
Actual results:
No pata disks detect.

Expected results:
Pata disks detect

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jonas Jonsson 2009-06-05 14:41:35 UTC
Some more information:

By using the old IDE driver ide-generic I've been able to get my pata devices detected. But I only get 1-2MB/s, from what I've read it's because the driver can't enable DMA.

If I change to "compatible" in BIOS I only get four drives instead of six. But the four detected drives (two sata, two pata) works. I get ~43MB/s from pata and over 100MB/s from sata.

Comment 2 Jonas Jonsson 2009-06-06 15:25:07 UTC
I've tried with Fedora-11-RC4-x86_64-DVD and there aren't any changes.

Comment 3 Jonas Jonsson 2009-06-12 18:47:31 UTC
Same with Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 12:45:39 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
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