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)