Problems with serial ata

[Marshall Lewis]

I had similar problems on my MSI motherboard (via sata controller).  I
added acpi=off to the kernel params, and now it works fine...  There was
a brief period (earlier kernels) where I also had to use the pci=biosirq
option in order to get the controller to work.  I have no idea if adding
the options will help you or not, but it's probably worth a try : )

--
 Marshall

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 20:38, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> As I just bought my first serial ata disk , I'm having lockup problems 
> on my two fedora installations (FC2t1 and FC1).
> 
> The hardware I'm using is a Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard (Silicon sata 
> chip) , using a seagate disk (not configured as raid). The OS is 
> installed on a parallel ata disk and has worked for a long time without 
> problems. The problem happens when I remove "hde=noprobe" from the boot 
> line to detect the serial ata disk (it is being recognized as hde).
> The system locks and no messages appear on /var/log/messages . On the 
> other O$, it works perfectly...
> This locks happen on FC2t1 and on FC1 (both fully updated). The problem 
> happens with full system load or even if the system is sitting idle...
> 
> Any ideas? I'm gonna make more tests , this time with smartd disabled 
> and see if I can pinpoint the cause of the problems...
> 
> --
> Pedro Macedo
>