Bug 4142

Summary:	(sata piix) SATA disk not detected on kernel 2.6.{8,9} [x86_64]
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Rainer Koenig (Rainer.Koenig)
Component:	Serial ATA	Assignee:	Jeff Garzik (jgarzik)
Status:	REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Severity:	blocking	CC:	bunk
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.8, 2.6.9	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Rainer Koenig 2005-02-01 04:16:54 UTC

Distribution: SuSE Linux 9.2, Fedora Core 3 and others I guess
Hardware Environment: Dual XEON workstation with ICh5 Serial ATA controller
Software Environment: Distributions and their installers
Problem Description: The kernels 2.6.8 (SuSE distribution) and 2.6.9 (FC3) 
seem to have problems to detect Serial-ATA hard disks connected to an ICH5 SATA
controller. Problem seems to happen only on [x86_64] architecture, if using i386
architecture it works and the SATA disks are detected.

Steps to reproduce:
Try installation of either SuSE 9.2 [x86_64] or Fedora Core 3 [x86_64] on a
system with SATA only hard disks. The install programs complain that there is no
hard disk detected.

I tried a SuSE installation on a normal IDE disk, works fine, but the SATA disk
still connected is not detected. Then I compiled kernel 2.6.10 for x86_64 and
installed it, works fine.

So this bug report is just intended to be an information if the problem wasn't
already knwon.

Comment 1 Adrian Bunk 2005-07-04 11:53:42 UTC

Is this problem also present in a vanilla 2.6.12.2 ftp.kernel.org kernel?

Comment 2 Adrian Bunk 2005-08-08 17:58:51 UTC

I'm assuming this issue is already fixed.

Please reopen this bug if it's still present in recent kernels.