Bug 151473 - Does not detect SATA hard drive during install.
Summary: Does not detect SATA hard drive during install.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 6
Hardware: x86-64 Linux
: P5 - None : Critical (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jens Axboe
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-02-16 12:01 UTC by David Todd
Modified: 2006-09-12 13:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Found By: Customer
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Attachments
Zip file containing yast logs and hwinfo.txt (46.82 KB, application/zip)
2006-02-17 20:51 UTC, David Todd
Details
Y2logs (14.99 KB, application/x-gzip)
2006-02-21 06:55 UTC, David Todd
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Hwinfo file (31.36 KB, application/x-gzip)
2006-02-21 06:56 UTC, David Todd
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hwinfo file in text format (173.79 KB, text/plain)
2006-02-21 06:57 UTC, David Todd
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Yast2 logs (14.03 KB, application/x-gzip)
2006-03-03 21:19 UTC, Ridvan Agar
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hwinfo (224.06 KB, text/plain)
2006-03-03 21:20 UTC, Ridvan Agar
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Description David Todd 2006-02-16 12:01:18 UTC
"could not detect any HD" error message when trying to install 64 bit 10.1 Beta 3 on following system:
CPU:     AMD 64 3000+
M'board: Elite (ECS) 755-2 (SIS744 & 964)
Memory:  512RAM
Video:   nVidia 6600GT
HDD:     Maxtor Diamondmax 200GB

All other hardware detected correctly.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-02-16 12:23:47 UTC
Please attach the output of `hwinfo --disk' as well as `hwinfo --storage-ctrl'.
It's possible this does not work because of the SiS-chipset - these chipsets are generally poorly supported by Linux mainly because of two reasons: It's low end hardware and SiS keeps it all secret.
Comment 2 David Todd 2006-02-16 13:03:12 UTC
I can only attach the hwinfo output from the current installation (10.0 32bit) which does work with this hardware.    
Comment 3 Michael Gross 2006-02-16 14:24:42 UTC
No, this does not really help (the problem might be hwinfo itself)
Use the rescue system from CD1
Also attach the yast logfiles located in /var/log/YaST2/*
Comment 4 David Todd 2006-02-17 20:51:11 UTC
Created attachment 69135 [details]
Zip file containing yast logs and hwinfo.txt

I hope these are the files you need?  If not, please let me know.
Comment 5 Michael Gross 2006-02-20 14:14:16 UTC
Please use tar and one of the compression-tools gzip or bzip2 here, ZIP is a rather unusual format and might not be usable by anyone around here.

Asking for a comment from the kernel maintainers.
Comment 6 David Todd 2006-02-21 06:55:52 UTC
Created attachment 69426 [details]
Y2logs
Comment 7 David Todd 2006-02-21 06:56:41 UTC
Created attachment 69427 [details]
Hwinfo file
Comment 8 David Todd 2006-02-21 06:57:26 UTC
Created attachment 69428 [details]
hwinfo file in text format
Comment 10 Jens Axboe 2006-02-21 10:21:09 UTC
It says:

  <6>SIS5513: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)

So check your BIOS settings and see if you need to enable them.
Comment 11 David Todd 2006-02-21 11:03:19 UTC
I will check this tonight by all means, but the 32 bit (V10.0) does install correctly on the same system?
What if I tried the 32 bit version of 10.1, would that help?  I could just try the initial setup of CD1 to see if the HD is detected?  I could also try the CD1 of the 64 bit 10.0.  
Comment 12 Ridvan Agar 2006-03-03 21:15:45 UTC
I would like to contribute with my HW to this bug which has not been fixed since SuSE 10.
SuSE 9.3 does recognize my SATA HDDs in ATA mode (sata_promise)
Comment 13 Ridvan Agar 2006-03-03 21:19:56 UTC
Created attachment 71214 [details]
Yast2 logs

Attached the yast2logs.
I would like to contribute with my HW to this bug which has been existing since SuSE 10.
SuSE 9.3 does recognize my SATA HDDs in ATA mode
Comment 14 Ridvan Agar 2006-03-03 21:20:49 UTC
Created attachment 71215 [details]
hwinfo
Comment 15 Chris L Mason 2006-03-17 21:24:32 UTC
For comment #12, please file a different bug.  That's a different chipset.  David, this one has been needinfo for a while, could you please check your bios?
Comment 16 Andreas Jaeger 2006-03-24 08:23:00 UTC
David, please provide the information that was asked for.  Otherwise this back will be resolved as INVALID due to not sufficient information.
Comment 17 David Todd 2006-03-24 08:31:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #16)
> David, please provide the information that was asked for.  Otherwise this back
> will be resolved as INVALID due to not sufficient information.
> 

I am sorry for the delay in responding to this but i have been out of the country for a couple of weeks.  I will check the requested info this weekend.
Comment 18 David Todd 2006-03-24 20:40:51 UTC
I have checked the BIOS and all seems ok.  The IDE ports for the CD-ROM and DVD player are enabled but the other two IDE ports are not, because of course there is no IDE HD installed.  Just the SATA HD.  As previously stated SUSE 10.0 installs ok on this system.  As does Ubuntu, Fedora Core 4 and of course Windows XP.  
Comment 21 Bodo Bauer 2006-05-08 11:55:22 UTC
What's the state here? Is the patch from connect #19 in? Is the bug still valid?