Bug#391288: d-i fails to install on an optiplex 745 (no ICH8 driver)

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

Op 17-10-2006 om 09:50:16 schreef Jason Martens:
> Geert Stappers wrote:
> > Op 16-10-2006 om 17:46 schreef Frans Pop:
> >> On Monday 16 October 2006 17:07, Jason Martens wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I tried again with they most recent d-i daily snapshot of the hd-media
> >>> (and netinstall.iso).  I ran "modprobe ahci", but it still did not
> >>> detect the sata disks.
> >>>       
> >> That is expected as the installer has not yet switched to 2.6.18. At this 
> >> time it is uncertain when exactly we will do so, but it should certainly 
> >> be within the next month.
> >
> > In my opinion can the original poster do more then WAITing.
> > He should confirm that the working system has the ahci kernel module
> > loaded. If not, then should be research which is the right module
> > for the ICH8 SATA controller (and reported back)
> >   
> I did confirm that the ahci kernel was loaded, as I state above.  As for
> which driver it needs, I believe that it is the ata_piix driver. See the
> 2.6.18 kernel changelog[1] which contains this:
> 
> commit 08f12edc335d24a89ba2f50b0a5b9d12295ce198
> Author: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Date:   Tue Jul 11 11:57:44 2006 -0400
> 
>     [libata] ata_piix: attempt to fix ICH8 support
>     
>     Take into account the fact that ICH8 changed the register layout of
>     the MAP and PCS register bits.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> 
> Here is the dmesg output from a kanotix live CD:
> ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00
> ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ]
 <snip/>
> ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[C] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Jason Martens
> 
> [1]http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18


Thanks for the feedback.

I have to admit that 'ahci' as a guess and I was wrong about it.
Meanwhile we known that 'ata_piix' is the needed module.
(note to myself: don't gamble on modulenames, just ask for it)

My research for having the PCI IDs 8086:2820 and 8086:2825 in 
the file /lib/modules/2.6.18/modules.pcimap was stopped due time
constrains. I hope that (the updated) ata_piix will be loaded
when 2.6.18 arrives in the debian-installer.


Cheers
Geert Stappers
(leaving this BR open until 2.6.18 comes in d-i)