On Friday 01 April 2005 12:09 pm, Alexander Lazarevich wrote: > I'm trying to install a SATA drive into my RHEL3-AS system but am having > lot's of problems. The mobo is the gigabyte GA-7VAX with most recent BIOS > (F13), which does not have onboard SATA. So I've got a PCI-SATA controller > in a PCI slot, it's the SIIG SC-SAT212 (two channel SATA, non-RAID), which > has the SIL 3112 chip in it. The drive is IBM 400GB. Both the SATA adapter > and card are known good, they work fine in windows. > > But in RHEL3-AS, the drive shows up as /dev/hda, and I can fdisk the drive > just fine, but as soon as I try to create a filesystem on /dev/hda1, the > system IRQ's start going beserk, and the load goes up to 7-8, and the > system is unusable. I can wait for the mkfs to finish, but then any time I > access the new filesystem, the system IRQ's go nuts again (75-90% usage). > > What is the deal with SATA controllers and IRQ's in linux? > > Anyone have an idea if it's a driver issue? If so, where can I download > the right driver? Or do I have to install with a special option? > > By the way, I also tried RHEL4-AS, and FC3, and those as well have the > same IRQ problem. > > Thanks! > > Alex Hi, What other drives are on the box? It is interesting that the SATA drive is showing up as the first PATA drive. I have a couple Seagate SATA's on an ASUS board and built similar on an ABIT board. In both cases the controller was a VIA onboard and in both cases the drives show up as scsi (such as /dev/sda1 ). I have no special args in grub.conf This may sound ridiculous, but are you sure the hda is the SATA drive? Here are a few outputs from my box: (system has only 2 disk drives, both SATA, and an IDE dvd burner that shows up as /dev/hdc) cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3200822AS Rev: 3.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3200822AS Rev: 3.01 Type: Direct-Access (..trimmed) egrep -i "scsi|sda|sata" /etc/modprobe.conf alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via lsmod|egrep -i "scsi|sda|sata" sata_via 8389 9 libata 49737 1 sata_via scsi_mod 152217 3 usb_storage,libata,sd_mod Hope that helps On a (loosely) related note, I found out the hard way that the "onboard raid' is like a raid controller version of a WinModem and as far as i can tell, does not work on Linux. (This was on a FC3 86_64 box.) -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce www.linux1.ca -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
