FC5T2 boot.iso cannot find my sata disk

[William John Murray]

William John Murray wrote:
>   Hello there,
>            Hm, I should have tried out boot.iso when it was suggested.
>
> Now I find it cannot see my sata hard disk, and invites me to 
> find drivers by hand. I have had no luck there - it always fails 
> to find the disk.
>     Any suggestions? I tried booting hdc=noprobe, but no visible
> difference.
>             Thanks,
>                Bill
>   
Ah..got it now. Here is lspci, section from /var/log/messages
The ata_piix driver is the one it was missing. I added that when asked, and
all was well.
  Still...it should be fixed.
       Bill

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML 
Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI 
Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 
82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface 
Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA 
Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon 
Mobility M300]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI6515 Cardbus Controller
03:01.5 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCI6515 SmartCard 
Controller
03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG 
MiniPCI Adapter (rev 05)


Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 
0x3F6 bmdma 0xBFA0 irq 14
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 
156301488 sectors: LBA
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: ata1(0): applying bridge limits
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: scsi0 : ata_piix
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: TOSHIBA 
MK8026GA  Rev: PA00
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel:   Type:   
Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte 
hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte 
hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
Jan 17 14:10:35 BillMurray kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda