From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071105 Fedora/2.0.0.9-1.fc7 Firefox/2.0.0.9 Description of problem: SATA drive is not recognized. multiple Messages at boot are: ata3: COMReset failed (errno=768), retrying in 10 secs After 2-3 minutes, system boots, but SATA drive not there. This drive works fine when I boot windows (it IS my windows boot drive) Above link to fedoraforum shows man steps and additional output as requested. Further research resulted in trying boot options of: acpi=off pci=nomsi, nommconf with no change in results. SATA drive still not found. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Load Fedora 7 with aforementioned kernel on ASUS P4S800D-X motherboard with attached SATAS drive 2. sit back and boot. 3. cry Actual Results: systems boots with nothing in /dev or /media that is mountable for SATA Expected Results: should have been able to see/mount SATA drive Additional info:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=170854
Fix is in 2.6.23.8-34, in updates-testing. To install: $ sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel
Yup, that fixes it alright. But, it dorks up my nvidia driver so I'll wait until there is one of those that meshes with this kernel and its released. Many thanks, Martin