Problems with ata-piix driver

Problems with ata-piix driver

[Norman Elton]

Hello,

I got your e-mail sfrom the ata_piix.c header. When I boot RedHat's 
installer program, the installer freezes when trying to load the 
ata_piix driver. I have filed a bug with RedHat (#125624). Jeff, I 
notice the bug has been assigned to you.

Is there any way around this issue? It's preventing me from installing 
RH on one of our servers.

Thanks,

Norman Elton

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Norman Elton
Information Technology - Network Engineering
College of William & Mary
757-221-7790

Re: Problems with ata-piix driver

[IKARASHI, Seiichi]

Hi,

How about reconstruct the SATA RAID volume into
non-RAID volumes (separated single disks)?
The ata_piix/libata driver in RHEL3 seems not support
SATA RAID. When I encountered a similar situation on a machine
which was connected with a SATA HDD with its Intel 6300ESB chip
on-board, I made the RAID function of ESB disable and installed OS.

Regards,
Seiichi Ikarashi


Norman Elton wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I got your e-mail sfrom the ata_piix.c header. When I boot RedHat's 
> installer program, the installer freezes when trying to load the 
> ata_piix driver. I have filed a bug with RedHat (#125624). Jeff, I 
> notice the bug has been assigned to you.
> 
> Is there any way around this issue? It's preventing me from installing 
> RH on one of our servers.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Norman Elton
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Norman Elton
> Information Technology - Network Engineering
> College of William & Mary
> 757-221-7790
> 
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Re: Problems with ata-piix driver

[Jeff Garzik]

Norman Elton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I got your e-mail sfrom the ata_piix.c header. When I boot RedHat's 
> installer program, the installer freezes when trying to load the 
> ata_piix driver. I have filed a bug with RedHat (#125624). Jeff, I 
> notice the bug has been assigned to you.
> 
> Is there any way around this issue? It's preventing me from installing 
> RH on one of our servers.

Usually this means you need to disable 'combined mode' or 'legacy mode' 
in the BIOS setup.

I'll take a look at that bug...

	Jeff

Re: Problems with ata-piix driver

[Jeff Garzik]

IKARASHI, Seiichi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How about reconstruct the SATA RAID volume into
> non-RAID volumes (separated single disks)?
> The ata_piix/libata driver in RHEL3 seems not support
> SATA RAID. When I encountered a similar situation on a machine
> which was connected with a SATA HDD with its Intel 6300ESB chip
> on-board, I made the RAID function of ESB disable and installed OS.


This is something different -- the hardware does NOT support RAID.  A 
separate software RAID driver is required for Intel's proprietary RAID 
format.  This driver has been posted to linux-kernel for 2.4.x, but is 
not available for 2.6.x kernels.

	Jeff

Re: Problems with ata-piix driver

[IKARASHI, Seiichi]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> IKARASHI, Seiichi wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> How about reconstruct the SATA RAID volume into
>> non-RAID volumes (separated single disks)?
>> The ata_piix/libata driver in RHEL3 seems not support
>> SATA RAID. When I encountered a similar situation on a machine
>> which was connected with a SATA HDD with its Intel 6300ESB chip
>> on-board, I made the RAID function of ESB disable and installed OS.
> 
> 
> 
> This is something different -- the hardware does NOT support RAID.  A 
> separate software RAID driver is required for Intel's proprietary RAID 
> format.  This driver has been posted to linux-kernel for 2.4.x, but is 
> not available for 2.6.x kernels.
> 
>     Jeff

Hi Jeff,

Is it the patch you mentioned above?
   http://lwn.net/Articles/60247/
Or any updates after this?
It seems to work with your ata_piix.


Seiichi

Re: Problems with ata-piix driver

[Norman Elton]

Jeff,

I looked into this. In the BIOS, when I enable the RAID configuration, 
it forces me into
"enhanced mode". I spoke with the Super Micro technical support, and 
they ensured me
that when you turn on RAID, it disables "combined mode".

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Norman

p.s. I'm copying our conversation to Bugzilla for reference.

------------------------------------------------------
Norman Elton
Information Technology - Network Engineering
College of William & Mary
757-221-7790


On Jun 15, 2004, at 11:19 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Norman Elton wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I got your e-mail sfrom the ata_piix.c header. When I boot RedHat's 
>> installer program, the installer freezes when trying to load the 
>> ata_piix driver. I have filed a bug with RedHat (#125624). Jeff, I 
>> notice the bug has been assigned to you.
>> Is there any way around this issue? It's preventing me from 
>> installing RH on one of our servers.
>
> Usually this means you need to disable 'combined mode' or 'legacy 
> mode' in the BIOS setup.
>
> I'll take a look at that bug...
>
> 	Jeff
>
>
>