Bug#280020: sata on a dell poweredge 1800 not detected

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004, Geert Stappers wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 07:21:01PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
>  <snip/>
> > Root Device: SATA
> > Output of lspci and lspci -n:
>  <snip/> 
> > Base System Installation Checklist:
> > [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
> > 
> > Initial boot worked:    [O]
> > Configure network HW:   [O]
> > Config network:         [O]
> > Detect CD:              [O]
> > Load installer modules: [O]
> > Detect hard drives:     [E]
> > Partition hard drives:  [ ]
> > Create file systems:    [ ]
> > Mount partitions:       [ ]
> > Install base system:    [ ]
> > Install boot loader:    [ ]
> > Reboot:                 [ ]
> > 
> > Comments/Problems:
> > 
> > Installer didn't recognize the SATA controller.
> 
> append
> 
>    aic7xxx=noprobe
> 
> and tell us if it helped.

That doesn't.  Manually modprobing ata_piix and sd_mod does.


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