[CentOS] Re: Installing CentOS 2.1 on ICH7R controller

[Scott Silva]

Aleksandar Milivojevic spake the following on 9/28/2006 11:53 AM:
> Quoting rado <rado at rivers-bend.com>:
> 
>> Alexandar, when you get your system up, if you run dmesg...does it show
>> where it's picking the drive up?
> 
> Well, it's in the PATA emulation mode, so it picks it up as soon as
> kernel probes for IDE drives (no additional modules required).
> 
> Anyhow, I managed to get the initrd image fixed.  However, the system
> hangs at random places when accessing the drives (after all file systems
> are mounted).  So I guess CentOS 2.1 and ICH7R are not ment to be (at
> least on SuperMicro PDSMi motherboard).  It's probably some small bug in
> IDE driver -- SATA configured in PATA emulation mode should just work
> (worst case is it would work in PIO mode).  Unless Intel screwed up
> something bad in the chipset.
> 
> On the other hand, CentOS 3.8 runs fine on the same hardware with SATA
> in native mode (with AHCI disabled) so it might be an option too. 
> However, it has some similar symptoms to CentOS 2.1 if I force it to
> PATA compatibility mode.
> 
> As a side note, CentOS 4.4 runs with AHCI enabled, and also seems to
> show some problems if I force system to PATA compatibility mode.  Hmmm...
> 
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There must be some pressing issues to go to all the trouble of installing 2.1
on new hardware. It is probably closed and in maintenance only state.

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