Re: Netinstall fails to detect SATA disk.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:50:51PM +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My Shuttle SN95G5 is equipped with integrated SATA controllers,
> (nvidia), and I have my HD attached to the primary one of these.
> During installation from
>
> ftp://ftp.caliu.info/pub/distribucions/debian-amd64/install-images/ \
> sarge-amd64-netinst.iso
>
> (image is dated Jan. 16 2005)
>
> I get to the point where I am asked to partition my disk and I would
> gladly do so, but the installer reports that it could not find a disk,
> so goodbye to me then.
>
> I have googled around to see if I could find anything about it and I
> got a sinking feeling that perhaps SATA support was not really
> working in Linux, because there were many reports about the same but
> no apparent answer. Then I fetched the Ubuntu installation CD and in
> 10 minutes without a single error I had a full Ubuntu installation on
> my HD, very impressive.
>
> I don't know why it is not working with this debian-installer. It seems
> to me that the modules sata_nv and libata are loaded, but maybe I need
> others?
>
A bug in kernel 2.6.[789] prevent disk from responding if attached to
the nforce SATA port. You've been bitten by this bug.
Symptoms are : quering the SATA port finds something, but the query of
the diks times out.
2.6.10 works ok.
Seb
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