Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 (Community and official) and Mandrake 10.2 beta 1&2 Hardware Environment: Asus A7N8X Deluxe (nForce2) + 2 Ide disks + 2 Sata disks. (1 Seagate 160Go and 1 Maxtor 250Go) Software Environment: Problem Description: The problem is already explained on the mdk bugzilla : http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11688 To resume : The installation process freeze at the step "Installation du pilote pour la carte disk/ide|scsi|hardware_raid|firewire Silicon Image|Sil3112A Serial ATA" Steps to reproduce: Trying to install the mdk distribution with this hardware. The only way to success the install is to unplug the maxtor 250Go. (No problem with the Seagate 160Go)
I don't understand. Are you sure this is a bug with mainline kernel? Reading over the comments in the thread you reference, it seems like only Mandrake had troubles? Ubunut & Knoppix work ok with both disks? Can you boot into 2.6.10? How aobut 2.6.11-rc5? Thanks, Nish
I'm not sure. I'm not a "power user". (Only a user as desktop) I have the problem with Mandrake since the 10.1 (kernel 2.6.8.1) But I tried the Suse 9.2 and it's the same problem. (Freeze at the start of the installation)
I just try to install Debian with the Net-install of the day (04-03-2005) and it freeze when loading the sata sil3112 module. Mandrake since 10.0, Suse 9.2 and Debian testing have the same problem. But Knoppix 3.7 doesn't have, and works perfectly. Anyone has an idea?
Update on the Mandrake Bugzilla. It works with the 2.6.11 but as it is my first compiled kernel, I'm not sure I really found the reason. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11688
As said in bug 11688 from Mandrake Bugzilla it seems to be due to a bug from the actual sata driver. It works with the old sata driver, but the distributions (Mandrake, Suse, Debian..) don't use it anymore because it is deprecated. And the new "libata" doesn't seem to be completely OK with this chip. (SIL3112)
What can we do for this driver actually? Is it possible to include the sil3112A chipset to the default Sata driver?
Maybe my experience can be usefull : I finally found a way to use my sata disk with sil312 : enabling ACPI (Mandriva cooker kernel 2.6.12-10mdk) I'haven't got the famous "disabling IRQ11" during boot , even if disk is not detected : I needed to rmmod and modprobe sata_sil to be able to mount my partitions from sata disk
This should have been fixed with new EH and custom sata_sil freeze/thaw/irq_handler. Nobody cared won't happen for sata_sil anymore.
Resolving.