SATA problem.

[DAVID BENTLEY]

 --- Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote: 
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:17:50AM +0100, DAVID
> BENTLEY wrote:
> > during boot everthing freezes at the point
> ANACONDA or
> > the KERNEL is trying to load a driver for the SATA
> > controller on the motherboard.
> 
> Which SATA devices ? You may also need to turn off
> USB legacy support,
> and boot with acpi=off on some E750x to avoid random
> weirdness/hangs (BIOS
> we think)
> 

The SATA controller is a SIL 3112 and is configured in
NON-RAID mode with two HGST 160 gig 7K250 drives.

I will try turning USB legacy support off and boot
with acpi=off and see what happens.

NB just noticed that there is a newer bios 1_10 than I
am currently using (1_09) so I might try a bios update
aswell.

> > Will there be functioning support for SATA
> hardware in
> > the final release of CORE 3 or will we have to
> wait
> > for CORE 4.
> 
> Works for me 8)
> 
> > NB Will there also be support for FIREWIRE hard
> disks
> > as either fixed or removable devices at some
> point.
> 
> As and when/if firewire for Linux is actually usable
> grade.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
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