[rhn-users] Kernel unable to recognize Serial ATA

[pete at chemistry.montana.edu]

I had just about the same problem, on a new install though so I had some
flexability.  RHEL 3 didn't have the drivers.  I tried RHEL 4 and found
their SATA controller driver database had much improved.  No guarantee of
course, but it may you a lot of time hunting the driver down, compliling,
etc.

Pete


> I have installed RHEL 3 on my 40 GB HD. I have intel promise
> 378controller card which has two RAID1 SATA disk. For some reason the
> kernel is unable to recognize my sata drives, although at the boot
> time, it does see it.  I would really appreciate if someone could
> throw some light on this. RHEL 3 says they support promise 378
> controller cards. This is my dmesg log file
>
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> hda: host protected area => 1
> hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63,
> UDMA(100)
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536)
> Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
> Initializing IPsec netlink socket
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Freeing initrd memory: 244k freed
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> libata version 0.70 loaded.
> ata_piix version 0.93
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC000 ctl 0xC402 bmdma 0xD000 irq 18
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC800 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xD008 irq 18
> ata1: thread exiting
> ata2: thread exiting
> scsi0 : ata_piix
> scsi1 : ata_piix
> Starting timer : 0 0
> Starting timer : 0 0
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
> Adding Swap: 2040244k swap-space (priority -1)
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
> scsi2 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> Starting timer : 0 0
>
> I am really confused and have reached a deadend.
> Thanks
>
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