Description of problem: There is a PC with the ITE8212 raid controller, to which the cd-rom is attached. FC6 installed and worked without any problems on this PC. Trying to install F7 locks up the machine when it is trying to load the pata_it821x driver. We disabled the controller in bios setup to install F7 anyway. Since the cdrom became disabled, we booted from flash and did a network install. After install, the problem didn't disappear. The machine locks up on "Starting udev". The only way to use F7 on this machine was to add the pata_it821x to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and live without a cdrom. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get the PC with the ITE8212 raid controller first. 2. Start the F7 installation 3. See the machine locked up when trying to load the driver Actual results: F7 installation freezes on start; F7 freezes on startup. Expected results: F7 installs; F7 boots; F7 works Additional info: The noraid option doesn't make any difference. Actually, loading the pata_821x itself doesn't lock up the machine, but loading sr_mod after it - does. Still I think the problem is in the it821x driver, but this is just a guess. I'll attach the lspci and dmesg outputs. The dmesg output is from the unupdated F7 kernel, but the update released to that time, does not solve the problem.
Created attachment 158043 [details] lspci
Created attachment 158044 [details] dmesg
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