Removing the USB-based CDROM and installing a proper CDROM in the chassis
resolved this.
The USB signal/device was conflicting somehow with the normal sequence of
loading the proper drivers to configure filesystems. BIOS adjustments
didn't work either, so there you have it. Machine up.
-krb
> In an attempt to load 64 or 32 bit centos 4.3 and get it to see my hard
> drives/ raid array, I see the following errors for the Adaptec SmartRAID V
> and the Silicon Images sata_si1 items:
>
> Karanbir mentioned running at least these commands to determine the
> proble... Any way to correct this so to get an successful install?
>
> ----snip----
> In detail, lspci -v:
>
> 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)
> (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
> Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64
> I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000bfff
> Memory behind bridge: fc900000-feafffff
> Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
> Capabilities: [f0] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and Configuration
>
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
> HyperTransport Technology Configuration
> Flags: fast devsel
> Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
> Capabilities: [a0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
> Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
> ---------------
>
> 02:05.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec (formerly DPT) SmartRAID V Controller
> (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Adaptec (formerly DPT): Unknown device c034
> Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> BIST result: 00
> Memory at fc800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
> Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
> Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
> Expansion ROM at 00095000 [disabled] [size=32K]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>
> 03:05.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114
> [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
> Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 SATALink Controller
> Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
> I/O ports at bc00 [size=8]
> I/O ports at b400 [size=4]
> I/O ports at b000 [size=8]
> I/O ports at ac00 [size=4]
> I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
> Memory at feafec00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
> Expansion ROM at fea00000 [disabled] [size=512K]
> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> ----snip----------
> and for lspci -n I get:
>
> 00:06.0 Class 0604: 1022:7460 (rev 07)
> 00:07.0 Class 0601: 1022:7468 (rev 05)
> 00:07.1 Class 0101: 1022:7469 (rev 03)
> 00:07.2 Class 0c05: 1022:746a (rev 02)
> 00:07.3 Class 0680: 1022:746b (rev 05)
> 00:0a.0 Class 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12)
> 00:0a.1 Class 0800: 1022:7451 (rev 01)
> 00:0b.0 Class 0604: 1022:7450 (rev 12)
> 00:0b.1 Class 0800: 1022:7451 (rev 01)
> 00:18.0 Class 0600: 1022:1100
> 00:18.1 Class 0600: 1022:1101
> 00:18.2 Class 0600: 1022:1102
> 00:18.3 Class 0600: 1022:1103
> 00:19.0 Class 0600: 1022:1100
> 00:19.1 Class 0600: 1022:1101
> 00:19.2 Class 0600: 1022:1102
> 00:19.3 Class 0600: 1022:1103
> 02:05.0 Class 0104: 1044:a511 (rev 01)
> 02:09.0 Class 0200: 14e4:1648 (rev 03)
> 02:09.1 Class 0200: 14e4:1648 (rev 03)
> 03:00.0 Class 0c03: 1022:7464 (rev 0b)
> 03:00.1 Class 0c03: 1022:7464 (rev 0b)
> 03:05.0 Class 0180: 1095:3114 (rev 02)
> 03:06.0 Class 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 27)
> 03:08.0 Class 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 10)
>
> ---------snip-------------
>
> and dmesg shows:
>
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.1[D] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
> ohci_hcd 0000:03:00.1: OHCI Host Controller
> ohci_hcd 0000:03:00.1: irq 10, pci mem f88a4000
> ohci_hcd 0000:03:00.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
> hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
> hub 2-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
> hub 2-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
> usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 4
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: DVDRAM GSA-5163D Rev: A104
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> USB Mass Storage device found at 4
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> libata version 1.20 loaded.
> sata_sil 0000:03:05.0: version 0.9
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:05.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88A6C80 ctl 0xF88A6C8A bmdma 0xF88A6C00 irq
> 10
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88A6CC0 ctl 0xF88A6CCA bmdma 0xF88A6C08 irq
> 10
> ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88A6E80 ctl 0xF88A6E8A bmdma 0xF88A6E00 irq
> 10
> ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88A6EC0 ctl 0xF88A6ECA bmdma 0xF88A6E08 irq
> 10
> ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> scsi1 : sata_sil
> ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> scsi2 : sata_sil
> ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> scsi3 : sata_sil
> ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> scsi4 : sata_sil
> tg3.c:v3.43-rh (Oct 24, 2005)
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
>
>
>>
>>
>>> Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to install either 32-bit or 64 bit centos 4.3 and I keep
>>>> getting an error:
>>>>
>>>> "No valid devices were found on which to install filesystems".
>>>>
>>>
>>> it cant find your hard drives, what controller do you have ? its
>>> possible that you either need a driver disc or the controller is not
>>> supported at all.
>>>
>>> lspci -v; lspci -n, after a 'linux rescue' boot, would help in locating
>>> the issue.
>>>
>>> - K
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