Description of problem: On systems of which the IDE controllers PCI ID isn't known by the kernel yet (for example hardware that comes out after the Fedora release), right now the user needs to 1) extract the modules.cgz 2) manually insmod the ata_generic.ko with the all_generic_ide=1 module option in the middle of the installation process on the terminal. Now of course for the "normal" case this isn't something that anaconda should do by default, but for the scenario where anaconda realizes that there is no storage device to install to at all, it would be a good option to have anaconda do this modprobing/etc instead, because chances are good that this driver works (albeit slowly). A second option (not currently enabled in fedora) is trying the pata_acpi driver; I don't know how well that one works.
If this can be done, it will greatly improve the experience of installing Fedora on new hardware; especially since the assumption that a kernel update will then later add "native" support for the storage to make it go actually faster..
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