Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 82796
Phoebe-2, Installer & disk druid don't recognize hard drives in VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller
Last modified: 2007-03-27 00:00:20 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202 Description of problem: Installer doesn't recognize I have a RH8 installation in /dev/hde6 so it offers no chance to upgrade. If I continue with a new installation, when selected manual partition, disk druid (maybe the installer) shows an error message in a dialog stating it cannot find any hard disk (I have 2, one in /dev/hde and the other in /dev/hdg, a CDROM in dev/hda and a ide zip drive in /dev/hdb) and reboots giving no other option. I had no problems installing in same hardware RH8 and previous 2 betas. I think the chip is a Fastrack 133, and this is a snippet of dmesg when booting in RH8 VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 80 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:10.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:07.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:07.2 PDC20265: chipset revision 2 PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20265: ROM enabled at 0xdffd0000 PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive hde: ST320414A, ATA DISK drive hdg: ST320414A, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xd402 on irq 10 ide3 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xcc02 on irq 10 blk: queue c03ba6ec, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03ba6ec, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hde: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100) blk: queue c03baa30, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03baa30, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdg: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdb: No disk in drive hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: hde: [PTBL] [2434/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 > hdg: [PTBL] [2434/255/63] hdg1 hdg2 hdg3 < hdg5 hdg6 hdg7 > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Follow installation until you can choose manual or automatic partition 2.Select manual partition 3. Actual Results: Error message saying the installer couldn't find any disk to install. Expected Results: Open disk druid with info about hard disks Additional info:
Can you try downloading the update disk image from http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/phoebe-pdcdetect.img and see if it works using it? (Information on using update disks is available from http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/updatedisks.html)
Yes. The problem was resolved using the disk image. It is installing right now. Thank you Roberto
This fix is in our current source base, closing accordingly