Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 138976
Hang/Crash on first load of sata_via driver
Last modified: 2013-07-02 22:22:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: When attempting to install FC3 from CD on my ABIT KV7 (Via chipset) the install hangs (not even a capslock or numlock) after the sata_via driver is loaded. My system is a Athlon 2400 CPU has 1 gig of memory and the following drives:- PATA Maxtor 2B020H1 (20 gigs) PATA Maxtor 6Y120L0 (120 gigs) SATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 (80 gigs) SATA Westen Dig WD2500JD-006 (250 gigs) The system is currently running FC1 successfuly and FC2 gives me "Lost interupt" when its gets to the SATA drives on boot of either the installer or the OS. I've also tried a test install of WindozeXP and it detects and installs without crashing. I've played around with drive combinations and it appears to be the western dig drive that is the trigger for this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Unknown version has install procedure locks up How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot system sing FC3 install disk 2.Go through install proceedure until the installer loads the sata_via driver Actual Results: Machine is completely hung Expected Results: I would have expected to install FC3 and use all four of my drives Additional info: I notice that there are some flash updates for my VIA board, since they problem only appears to occur when I have the western dig drive plugged in I guess it may be some kind of incompatibility between VIA and WD. Although that really doesn't explain why FC1 and XP appear to function without a poblem/
Oops!, In my original error report I make out that I can toggle the problem be disabling and enabling the western digital SATA drive. When in fact its the Maxtor 80Gig drive that seems to trigger the hang. My apologies
In an attempt to resove the problem, I've flash updated to the latest KV7 bios (I was on version 13) and not I'm running version 17. Fedora Core 3 still hangs completely after its loaded the sata_via driver.
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.