Bug 4178

Summary:	SATA Sil3112A - Unable to install because of freeze
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Skippy (skippyfr)
Component:	Serial ATA	Assignee:	Tejun Heo (htejun)
Status:	RESOLVED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Severity:	low	CC:	bunk, nacc, tulear999
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.8.1 to 2.6.11	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Skippy 2005-02-06 04:09:50 UTC

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)

Comment 1 Nishanth Aravamudan 2005-02-28 17:03:33 UTC

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

Comment 2 Skippy 2005-03-01 11:09:10 UTC

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)

Comment 3 Skippy 2005-03-04 15:01:21 UTC

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?

Comment 4 Skippy 2005-03-06 08:57:33 UTC

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

Comment 5 Skippy 2005-04-02 07:14:00 UTC

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)

Comment 6 Skippy 2005-04-23 06:28:41 UTC

What can we do for this driver actually?
Is it possible to include the sil3112A chipset to the default Sata driver?

Comment 7 tulear 2005-08-22 07:19:56 UTC

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

Comment 8 Tejun Heo 2007-06-18 09:12:42 UTC

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.

Comment 9 Tejun Heo 2007-06-18 09:12:57 UTC

Resolving.