Fedora 8 test 2 detects only two of my four SATA drives

[Willem Riede]

On 9/30/07, Willem Riede <wrrhdev at riede.org> wrote:
> On my opteron server
> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=0fdd6288-6cb2-497e-a1a5-6459d9c8abde
> the x86_64 kernel detects only two out of four SATA drives.
>
> I have the same problem with Fedora 7, I yum-ed to it to have the new
> apps, but I still run a FC6 kernel, which detects them just fine.
>
> I have two WD360GD-00FL (sda, sdb) - detected by F8- and two
> ST3300831AS (sdc,sdd) - _not_ detected by F8.

I appear to be able to work around this by booting with pnpacpi=off.
Does anyone know if there is any downside to that?

Thanks, Willem Riede.