HP DL140G2, SATA woes.

[Karl Latiss]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:04 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting RHEL4 installed on a DL140G2 with two SATA
> drives.  I am doing a PXE install, so I do not have a CD-ROM drive in the
> system and this appears to have the side-effect that both SATA drives are
> caught by the Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver before ata_piix can catch
> it.
> 
> As soon as I hook an IDE CD-ROM up to the system, the ata_piix driver
> somehow can get access to the SATA drives first and they use the SCSI
> subsystem and I get infinitely better performance.
> 
> However, I have to disconnect one of the SATA drives to attach a CD-ROM
> drive (don't have a power splitter currently).  Without the CD-ROM drive,
> dmesg shows the IDE driver assigning hda and hdc to my two SATA drives --
> and later:
> 
> ata_piix version 1.03
> ata_piix: 0x1f0 IDE Port busy
> ata_piix: probe of 0000:00:1f.2 failed with error -16
> 
> Booting with noprobe doesn't appear to solve this problem.  My current
> thought is to modify the modules.pci, etc stuff to have my PCI device id not
> match up with the IDE driver.

Maybe no direct help to you but I just recently installed RHEL4 U3 on 2
DL140G2 systems using a power splitter with no problems. Mine are
Opterons and use the nv_sata driver.

-- 
Karl Latiss <karl.latiss at atvert.com.au>
Atvert Systems