Bug 299340

Summary: ATI SB600, no sata harddisk found, pci=nomsi did not work anymore
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Forgotten User 7pwnVrOCb1 <forgotten_7pwnVrOCb1>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Tejun Heo <teheo>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jerbes
Version: Beta 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: install log, lspci, interrupts

Description Forgotten User 7pwnVrOCb1 2007-08-10 16:03:40 UTC
With oS10.3 alpha3 ..alpha7 the harddisk was found by using pci=nomsi, alpha7 without other parameter like irqpoll,nolapic,acpi=off. Now I can`t get Beta1 working :-(
Comment 1 Forgotten User 7pwnVrOCb1 2007-08-10 16:07:11 UTC
Created attachment 156837 [details]
install log, lspci, interrupts

Installation data
Comment 2 Juan Erbes 2007-08-12 12:53:44 UTC
I filed the Bug 299575 - (Opensuse 10.3 beta1 X86-64 will not install on ATI SB600 / RD580 based motherboard - ahci module will not load)
System
mainboard: MSI K9A PLATINUM (SB600 / RD580) chipset
CPU: Athlon64 5200 dual core 
RAM: 2 GB
HD: Western Digital SATA2
Other: pata DVD writer

I have a Athlon64 dual core in a MSI K9A PLATINUM motherboard, and for
instaling OSS 10.2, I must to install with "install pci=nomsi" in the
command line. Later I upgrade it to OSS 10.3 alpha 6, and it works
without important problems (32 bit version). 
But now I downloaded the kde x86-64 iso, verified the checksum, it was
ok, and it will not install on my SB600 / RD580 based motherboard.
I must boot with the parameter "pci=nomsi" in 10.3 alpha 6, and I tryed to
remove it, and the system do'nt loads.

I tryed with "safe settings", "acpi off", and with "install pci=nomsi",
but the ahci module will not load. The bios is setted to "Native IDE",
but it was the same in 10.2 and 10.3 alpha 6 if it was setted to
"ahci".
Other detail, after the upgrade to 10.3 alpha 6, I changed the dvd
burner from a Asus ATAPI, to a LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1H (20x burning
dvds), and I must to change the driver from the ide-generic to
pata_atiixp, to lograte that it works with k3b.
In the installation process the system stops for about 2 minutes
trying to load de ahci driver module (in 10.2 32 bits I got the same
problem without the "install pci=nomsi" in the command line), but this
option will not work now in 10.3 beta1 X86-64.
Now the loaded modules for the disk controllers with 10.3 alpha 6 32 bits are:
pata_atiixp            11904  0
ahci                   25348  4
libata                120396  2 pata_atiixp,ahci
scsi_mod              140248  5 usb_storage,sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,libata

I read in the kernel list that the ahci driver is'nt mature enough so as the msi management and the problem appear with many chipsets:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/31/669
Comment 3 Tejun Heo 2007-08-14 05:19:08 UTC
Well, the ahci driver itself is mature enough.  The problems are mostly with chipsets which claim to support features when they actually don't.  Please post the result of 'lspci -nn' in bug 299010 and file a separate bug report for 'pci=nomsi'.  Thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 299010 ***
Comment 4 Forgotten User 7pwnVrOCb1 2007-08-16 18:28:56 UTC
Ok, for that you have #301116 now ;-) (could not read emails before, sorry)