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Re: Booting on nforce3 with SATA



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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?

I had the exact same problem some time ago. It was a bug in kernel 2.6.8
and 2.6.9. As I see it, there are 2 solutions. Either use a custom
kernel with the libata SATA drivers disabled and use the old depreciated
ide-sata driver. Or you can use kernel 2.6.10 or above.

/Jacob
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