FC5: Asus P5-B AHCI (sata) not working with kernel 2.6.17-1.2174smp but fine with 2.6.15-1.2054smp

Thu Aug 31 08:03:10 UTC 2006

Rainer Traut schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> the problem is on our new home pc, specs:
> Intel Core2 Duo 6600, 2GB RAM, 300GB SATA AHCI Mode
> Asus P5-B motherboard,latest bios, Intel ICH8R
> 
> The system boots fine with the old initial kernel but panics after 
> running a full update.
> 
> As I recall here's the console output:
> PCI: Bios Bug: MCFG is not E820 reserved
> PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
> nash...
> (ata1) timed out after 30seconds
> ...
> kernel panic
> 
> The hd light is flashing slowly...
> 
> So I believe there's something broken with ahci support in later kernels.

An update...
The 2.6.16X kernels work fine, only the 2.6.17X fail.

Filed BZ:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204586

Rainer