On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:44:11PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > After some more tests I admit I was wrong: the problem is still there. > > Summary: d-i does not correctly handle Promise FastTrak SATA SX4. > > I removed all other PCI cards and I still cannot correctly install Sarge > since whenever sd_mod is loaded the computer freeze. Not good. I'll increase severity.
> A second -- and different -- problem is about the SCSI controller I > already mentioned. It seems that it cannot correctly handle tape drives > like the HP DAT72i. Please file a seperate bugreport for it. > I then added an IDE drive to the internal PATA controller and installed > debian locally. When debian starts the module sata_sx is loaded but the > sd_mod isn't and the controller is correctly detected and all scsi0-3 > chain are defined. Then, when I load sd_mod, the computer start giving > SCSI errors and then freeze. > > I recompiled kernel 2.6.10 putting all SCSI and SATA stuff builtin (as > opposed to modules) and removed all IDE drivers. The new kernel boots > and recognize correctly all disks. The operating system then boot. > > Bye, > Giuseppe > > P.S. lspci is now available and attached. > 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) > 0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02) > 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host > Controller (rev 02) > 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host > Controller (rev 02) > 0000:00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02) > 0000:00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corp. 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt > Controller (rev 02) > 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host > Controller (rev 02) > 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a) > 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) > 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB PATA Storage Controller (rev > 02) > 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02) > 0000:04:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) > 0000:04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705_2 > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) > 0000:04:05.0 SCSI storage controller: Tekram Technology Co.,Ltd. TRM-S1040 > (rev 01) > 0000:04:06.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20621 [SATA150 > SX4] 4 Channel IDE RAID Controller (rev 01) Provide also the output of `lspci -n` or even better: ( lspci ; lspci -n ) | sort Cheers Geert Stappers
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