Re: Booting on nforce3 with SATA
Zafod Biblbrox wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to do a net boot on a nforce3 chipset (uses sata_nv module) with
> Seagate 160GB SATA drive, but the drive is not recognized:
>
> > ata1 is slow to respond, please be patient
> > ata1 failed to respond (30 secs)
>
> I have googled for help and have found out, that the same problem has been
> noticed with FC3. They seem to have found a fix in the bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140367, but the
> proposed fixes are probably not applied to the install kernel.
>
> Do you have any suggestions how to overcome this problem?
>
> juraj
>
>
I've been booting from SATA using the nforce3 controller since 2.6.10 -
no problems at all.
bugfood@bugfood:~$ lspci | grep Serial
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA
Controller (v2.5) (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA
Controller (v2.5) (rev a2)
>From looking at the bugzilla, it seems to be an old kernel bug. What
kernel are you running? Have you tried upgrading?
-Corey
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