Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 131721
ata_sis is causing problems
Last modified: 2013-07-02 22:21:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Hardware ======== Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe (USB1.0/2.0, firewire, Gigabit Eth, Sata) (SiS964 / SiS180) 2Gb Ram Lite-On DVD-RW DL 832S Chaintech GeForce 5900XT 128Mb USB Card Reader 7 in 1 1 SATA 160Gb HD 1 PATA 27Gb HD I want to try to install FC3 Test1 on the SATA HD which has 2 primary partitions: - a small 8Mb FAT16 for XOSL (boot loader) - a 50Gb NTFS partition The PATA drive contains an installation on Linux Mandrake 9.2 with Ext2, Ext3 and XFS partitions. Installing from CDRom FC3 Test1. Same thing happened when installing normally (enter), with 'linux noacpi' and with 'linux acpi=off' When loading driver for SiS SATA (sata_sis) I get a small black rectangle (~ 5cm x 0.5cm) next to "Loading sata_sis driver..." with garbage characters in it. Alt-F2 shows: * inserted /tmp/libata.ko Alt-F4 shows: <3> irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug ... <0> Disabling IRQ #10 Note: I've tried several other distro and so far:- - Linux Mandrake 10.1 beta2 Same pbm with irq #10 - Yoper Linux Same pbm with irq #10 - Arch Linux Same pbm with irq #10 - Gentoo 2004.2 Ok. I can fdisk/cfdisk the SATA HD - Knoppix 3.6 (kernel 2.6) Ok. I get 2 HD icons in KDE once booted and I can browse both partitions on SATA HD. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot CD 2. Press enter 3. wait a few seconds until it loads the sata_sis driver Actual Results: Installation frozen although I can Alt-F1, Alt-F2, etc... Expected Results: I expect it loads the driver and recognizes the SATA drive properly and carry on with the rest of the installation. Additional info:
Some info from Knoppix 3.6 (maybe it helps): root@ttyp0[~]# lsmod Module Size Used by nls_cp437 9600 0 nls_iso8859_1 7936 0 ntfs 111468 0 snd_mixer_oss 18688 0 snd 47588 1 snd_mixer_oss via_agp 10624 0 sworks_agp 10784 0 sis_agp 9732 1 nvidia_agp 9628 0 intel_mch_agp 11664 0 intel_agp 19612 0 efficeon_agp 10016 0 ati_agp 10252 0 amd_k7_agp 9612 0 amd64_agp 12360 0 ali_agp 9088 0 agpgart 29868 11 via_agp,sworks_agp,sis_agp,nvidia_agp,intel_mch_agp,intel_agp,efficeon_agp,ati_agp,amd _k7_agp,amd64_agp,ali_agp autofs 18048 1 af_packet 21000 0 i810_audio 33684 1 ac97_codec 19212 1 i810_audio soundcore 11232 3 snd,i810_audio sk98lin 152744 0 dmfe 21660 0 crc32 8064 1 dmfe parport_pc 37568 0 parport 36936 1 parport_pc 8250 34480 0 serial_core 22528 1 8250 usb_storage 61120 0 ohci_hcd 22276 0 uhci_hcd 31760 0 ds 17284 0 yenta_socket 20480 0 pcmcia_core 56772 2 ds,yenta_socket thermal 14352 0 processor 19776 1 thermal fan 7052 0 button 8984 0 battery 11916 0 ac 7564 0 rtc 14920 0 cloop 14976 1 sbp2 24712 0 ohci1394 33796 0 ieee1394 302008 2 sbp2,ohci1394 usbcore 95840 5 usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd ide_scsi 17156 1 There is no 'sata_sis' module so they must have that stuff compiled in the kernel or something? root@ttyp0[~]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: HDS722516VLSA80 Rev: V34O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: LITE-ON Model: DVDRW SOHW-832S Rev: VS01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 0128 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 My SATA drive is on scsi0. root@ttyp0[~]# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 566204 XT-PIC timer 1: 332 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 230 XT-PIC ohci_hcd, ohci_hcd, SysKonnect SK-98xx, SiS 7012 6: 40 XT-PIC floppy 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC acpi 10: 98 XT-PIC libata, ohci1394 11: 296 XT-PIC ohci_hcd, eth0 12: 28962 XT-PIC i8042 14: 32 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1702 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 566049 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Hope it give some valuable info. I don't see why it works for Knoppix 3.6 (kernel 2.6.7 SMP) and it cannot work for FC3...
Created attachment 103504 [details] Knoppix 3.6 (kernel 2.6 .config file) Booting Knoppix 3.6 with 'knoppix26 lang=uk screen=1600x1200 depth=32' I get a perfectly working SATA drive with my 2 partitions (FAT16 and NTFS) accessible.
From Knoppix 3.6 (kernel 2.6 .config file) for SATA: CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SVW=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SX4=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIS=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VITESSE=y I've attached the full Kernel 2.6 .config file in case it's relevant. So I don't know if the reason it works in Knoppix 3.6 is the sata_sis driver compiled in the kernel but something in Knoppix kernel config makes it work prefectly which is not the case for FC3 Test1.
[copying info from bug reports from other distro] Knoppix has up local apic disabled, which is probably what is allowing it to see the SATA controller. It seems there is a bug in 2.6.8 kernel that prevents disabling local apic on boot with nolapic boot parameter. http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/26/63 We should not have APIC enabled in the BOOT kernel, since APIC just gives a performance improvement (which is less critical than ensuring every machine gets through installation). But, it must also be possible to disable APIC after installation ...
this makes absolutely no sense since we do not have apic enabled.
Ok. You don't have apic enabled and my last comments made no sense. Fine. What about the fact that the installer fails on this board with these chipsets (SiS180/SiS964) with a SATA drive and that several distro seems to have the same problem (which seems to point to a kernel pbm)? Instead of just saying it makes no sense maybe some pointers to what it could be and what I could try to help FC would be more useful...
Just tried FC3 Test2 and the exact same pbm happened...
Well following bug report is about the same pbm I believe: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132990
I have the identical board (Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe, SiS964 / SiS180) and the identical problem to the poster. acpi=off also has no effect for me. This has happened with Core 3 Test 1 and Test 2.
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