From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 Description of problem: FC4T2 cannot load and operate a Promise SATA378 TX2 controller either in RAID or ATA mode. If this helps, Gentoo 2005.0 works ;) . I've seen this same issue complained about on numerous Internet forums regarding FC2 and FC3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Find system with Promise SATA378 Controller 2.Boot FC4T2 Install CD/DVD 3.Navigate until the diskdruid menu Actual Results: No drives found to install, installer reboots the system. Expected Results: Partition and format drives for install process. Additional info:
If it helps...I am running yoper-2.2-6 but with the 2.6.11.6 kernel downloaded from ftp.kernel.org with the following libata patch (by jgarzik) applied which allows for the Promise SATA378 TX2plus to work (at least in ATA mode, I haven't tried in RAID mode): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.bz2 It would be great if this could be applied to the anaconda kernel used during the installation so that systems using this RAID controller can use FC4T2 & above.
Mass update of -test bugs to update version to fc4. (Please retest on final release, and report results if you have not already done so). Thanks.
Mass update to all FC4 bugs: An update has been released (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) which rebases to a new upstream kernel (2.6.13.2). As there were ~3500 changes upstream between this and the previous kernel, it's possible your bug has been fixed already. Please retest with this update, and update this bug if necessary. Thanks.
2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4. Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in this release, which may have fixed your problem. Thank you.
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
I can never tell which kernel flavor of the month is gonna work from kernel.org or RH. So far, I've had success in using the patches from here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/ What is unique about this system is that when using non-raid, the controller is put into PATA mode by the BIOS and this cannot be changed in BIOS setup. Then the kernel loads the correct sata_promise driver, but cannot find any ports. The above patch has solved this issue for the past few kernel releases for me.
I require that patch as well for the MSI k8n Diamond Plus motherboard. The primary NVIDIA controler works fine on the nForce 4 primary SATA controler, but for the extra two SATA ports on the motherboard, the SLI controler requires sata_sil24, only available with the libsata patch. This integration really needs to be done to better support the modern crop of (especially AMD-base) motherboards coming out.
[This comment added as part of a mass-update to all open FC4 kernel bugs] FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will continue to release security related updates for the kernel. As this bug is not security related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been migrated to FC5. Please retest with Fedora Core 5. Thank you.
How funny. I just got this email while installing FC5. I'm running in RAID mode now. Before I was running with just one drive in ATA mode. RAID mode is working well, better than upstream kernel even! I assume since RAID mode is working that libata would operate the ATA port.
Thanks