Description of problem: SATA Hard Drives not seen by install boot kernel. ASUS P5VDC-MX mb (Intel Dual Core 64) (via vt8251 chipset). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):x86-64 How reproducible: Tried to install several times on this board. All failures. Install FC6t2 on older ASUS mb with sata drives Athlon 64 no problems with install, games all ended with an abend when you try to exit. (minesweep, GNOME balls, etc.) Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Installed 2517 kernel on FC5, no problems seeing SATA drives. So vt8251 support is in FC6t2 2517 kernel but not in the install boot kernel.
I have now tried FC6 Test3 and still can not use this ASUS mother board. It still will not access the SATA drives. This is being writen on that ASUS mother board, It is now running 64 bit FC5 2054 with special 64 bit AHCI and SATA-VIA drivers. This was supposed to be fixed with the 2.6.18 kernel, will it work on FC6 final release???
Indeed the ahci driver *should* support this now. I'm not sure if this went upstream /after/ test3 was cut though. The FC6Pre ISOs have it for sure. It'd be good to know if that works or not.
FC6 final does detect the SATA controller chipset on install. It doesn't, however, access USB or Netork. (I'm filing other bug reports for those issues).
Closing bug per comment #3