[CentOS] Seagate NCQ + Sil3112 (sata_sil)

[Sam Drinkard]

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.


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Snowman