Description of problem: When installing RHEL3 U5 Beta release to an PATA drive with an additional SATA drive attached on a ICH7 system with the BIOS set to AHCI mode the installation will complete. After rebooting, logging in, and running lsmod you can see that the AHCI driver is not loaded by default and you are unable to see the SATA drive. After running Modprobe AHCI then the driver loads and the os will see the SATA drive. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.21-31.EL How reproducible: When installing RHEL3 U5 Beta release to an PATA drive with an additional SATA drive attached on a ICH7 system with the BIOS set to AHCI mode the installation will complete. After rebooting, logging in, and running lsmod you can see that the AHCI driver is not loaded by default and you are unable to see the SATA drive. After running Modprobe AHCI then the driver loads and the os will see the SATA drive. or After installing RHEL3 U5 Beta release to an PATA drive with an additional SATA drive attached on a ICH7 system with the BIOS set to IDE mode the installation will complete. Change the BIOS from IDE to AHCI. After rebooting, logging in, and running lsmod you can see that the AHCI driver is not loaded by default and you are unable to see the SATA drive. After running Modprobe AHCI then the driver loads and the os will see the SATA drive. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: the AHCI driver is not loaded by default and you are unable to see the SATA drive Expected results: the AHCI driver is loaded by default and you are able to see the SATA drive. Additional info:
Issue tracker#70144
IT was closed in RHEL3 U5 development cycle. Closing this Bug.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154130 ***