Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: d-i Debian Squeeze Net Install disc fails to detect my RDC PATA controller when it tries to detect the disks. I end up with the dialog "No disk drive was dtected. If you know the name of the driver needed by your disk drive, you can select from the list." Unfortunately, even the list of the drivers does not have the driver (pata_rdc) for the controller.
My system is a VortexDX based 486 system. The driver support for this IDE controller has been in the Linux kernel since 2.6.32. http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.32/drivers/ata/pata_rdc.c Interestingly, if I attach a hard drive to my system with Debian Squeeze (2.6.32-5-486) already installed, the kernel boots just fine and loads the pata_rdc driver: ************************************************************ debian:~# lsmod Module Size Used by acpi_cpufreq 3622 0 processor 23003 1 acpi_cpufreq thermal_sys 9346 1 processor cpufreq_powersave 602 0 cpufreq_userspace 1304 0 cpufreq_conservative 3902 0 cpufreq_stats 1592 0 fuse 43201 3 loop 9573 0 psmouse 48562 0 evdev 5520 3 pcspkr 1235 0 serio_raw 2912 0 ext3 92740 1 jbd 27954 1 ext3 mbcache 3482 1 ext3 usbhid 27576 0 hid 50948 1 usbhid sd_mod 25957 3 crc_t10dif 1012 1 sd_mod ata_generic 2059 0 ohci_hcd 17179 0 pata_rdc 2789 2 libata 117307 2 ata_generic,pata_rdc r6040 8056 0 ehci_hcd 28827 0 scsi_mod 102293 2 sd_mod,libata usbcore 98489 4 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd mii 2654 1 r6040 nls_base 4445 1 usbcore ************************************************************ Here is the relevant output of lspci -vvxx for IDE controller: ************************************************************ 00:0c.0 IDE interface: RDC Semiconductor, Inc. Device 1011 (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: RDC Semiconductor, Inc. Device 1011 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 16 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 14 Region 0: I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1] Region 2: I/O ports at 0170 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at 0374 [size=1] Region 4: I/O ports at ef00 [size=16] Kernel driver in use: pata_rdc 00: f3 17 11 10 05 00 00 02 01 8a 01 01 04 40 00 00 10: 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 20: 01 ef 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f3 17 11 10 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0e 01 00 00 ************************************************************ It seems that the Debian Installer uses the exact same kernel (2.6.32-5-486), so why does it fails to detect my RDC PATA controller whereas it just works fine on an installed Debian Squeeze hard drive. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110708173118.6730.44412.reportbug@debian60vm.versanet
