Sam Drinkard wrote:
Feizhou wrote:
Peter Kitchener wrote:
All,
I have a problem with a new Seagate hard disk. The problem occurs when i go to install CentOS, i insert the cd and start the boot up process, when it gets to the section where it detects the hard disks, the driver is seems crashes, the message it produces complains about no one caring about a interrupt on IRQ11. The hard disk is a Seagate 200GB 8MB SATA150 NCQ drive, on a SilliconImage 3112 PCI adapter card. Does anyone have any ideas?
Seagate and Silicon Image are a not very well known disaster combination due to unclear specificitions which led to varying implementations.
The only idea possible is get another card or another brand of disk.
I ran into somewhat the same problem with an install, and got the same type of irq 11 message, which happened to be for that machine, a USB hub. If I recall right, in order to get the thing to install, I had to use the noacpi and a few other commands, but once I figured out what was killing things, the install process went ahead. Realize this is probably not much help, but I wouldn't toss the disk just yet. There has to be something that can be done to get it installed.
Well, for some a bios update would make their Silicon Image play nice with Seagate disks but then there are also reports of Silicon Image + Seagate NCQ having an entirely different problem. This is with them being 'blacklisted' by the driver. (blacklisted as in work around the problem)