On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:04 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > I'm having trouble getting RHEL4 installed on a DL140G2 with two SATA > drives. I am doing a PXE install, so I do not have a CD-ROM drive in the > system and this appears to have the side-effect that both SATA drives are > caught by the Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver before ata_piix can catch > it. > > As soon as I hook an IDE CD-ROM up to the system, the ata_piix driver > somehow can get access to the SATA drives first and they use the SCSI > subsystem and I get infinitely better performance. > > However, I have to disconnect one of the SATA drives to attach a CD-ROM > drive (don't have a power splitter currently). Without the CD-ROM drive, > dmesg shows the IDE driver assigning hda and hdc to my two SATA drives -- > and later: > > ata_piix version 1.03 > ata_piix: 0x1f0 IDE Port busy > ata_piix: probe of 0000:00:1f.2 failed with error -16 > > Booting with noprobe doesn't appear to solve this problem. My current > thought is to modify the modules.pci, etc stuff to have my PCI device id not > match up with the IDE driver. Maybe no direct help to you but I just recently installed RHEL4 U3 on 2 DL140G2 systems using a power splitter with no problems. Mine are Opterons and use the nv_sata driver. -- Karl Latiss <karl.latiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Atvert Systems -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
