opensuse 10.2 can't find EIDE harddrive
 

Hi,
I'm trying to install opensuse 10.2 from a dvd. After starting the install it says it can't find my harddrive. Windows XP, Fedora 6 and SLES 10 can all install on it fine. As opensuse 10.2 boots up, the messages say nothing about detecting a hardrive. The machine in question is an HP Compaq D530 CMT. Very standard. BIOS sees the harddrive too. Any ideas?

thank you,
Michael

Suse 10.2 is the first to support hardware/software "hybrid" raids (like Promise and Highpoint) and I have seen it detect drives as being one of these, even when connected to the mobo and no RAID controller in the box at all!

It's just a thought (and maybe not even a useful one), but could that be it?

viel gluck,

J

according to dmesg, it does seem to want to use raid but it does not say anything explicit.
I checked for other log files and found boot.msg. The seemingly relevant part is this:

####### BEGIN #######

<6>ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<6> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x14c0-0x14c7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
<6> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x14c8-0x14cf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
<7>Probing IDE interface ide0...
<4>hda: ST340017A, ATA DISK drive
<3>IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 14
<4> [<c01465ed>] setup_irq+0x17d/0x190
<4> [<e0d1cbb3>] ide_intr+0x0/0x1aa [ide_core]
<4> [<c014667c>] request_irq+0x7c/0x98
<4> [<e0d1ff1e>] init_irq+0x20c/0x473 [ide_core]
<4> [<c01b89e9>] register_blkdev+0xd3/0xde
<4> [<e0e366aa>] piix_config_drive_xfer_rate+0xfe/0x125 [piix]
<4> [<e0d202ad>] hwif_init+0x128/0x2fc [ide_core]
<4> [<e0d20594>] probe_hwif_init_with_fixup+0x1d/0x6b [ide_core]
<4> [<e0d22897>] ide_setup_pci_device+0x43/0x75 [ide_core]
<4> [<c01ca7dc>] pci_device_probe+0x36/0x57
<4> [<c0225759>] really_probe+0x39/0x9d
<4> [<c02257ee>] driver_probe_device+0x31/0x87
<4> [<c02258a6>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x6b
<4> [<c02258ea>] __driver_attach+0x44/0x6b
<4> [<c0225236>] bus_for_each_dev+0x39/0x5b
<4> [<c02256cc>] driver_attach+0x16/0x18
<4> [<c02258a6>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x6b
<4> [<c0224f34>] bus_add_driver+0x6c/0x107
<4> [<c01ca932>] __pci_register_driver+0x61/0x7d
<4> [<e08660af>] piix_ide_init+0xaf/0xb3 [piix]
<4> [<c013987f>] sys_init_module+0x17fe/0x1981
<4> [<c015f3ed>] shmem_getpage+0x4f2/0x552
<4> [<c0103dc7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
<3>IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 14
<4> [<c01465ed>] setup_irq+0x17d/0x190
<4> [<e0d1cbb3>] ide_intr+0x0/0x1aa [ide_core]
<4> [<c014667c>] request_irq+0x7c/0x98
<4> [<e0d1ff1e>] init_irq+0x20c/0x473 [ide_core]
<4> [<c01b89e9>] register_blkdev+0xd3/0xde
<4> [<e0e366aa>] piix_config_drive_xfer_rate+0xfe/0x125 [piix]
<4> [<e0d2046a>] hwif_init+0x2e5/0x2fc [ide_core]
<4> [<e0d20594>] probe_hwif_init_with_fixup+0x1d/0x6b [ide_core]
<4> [<e0d22897>] ide_setup_pci_device+0x43/0x75 [ide_core]
<4> [<c01ca7dc>] pci_device_probe+0x36/0x57
<4> [<c0225759>] really_probe+0x39/0x9d
<4> [<c02257ee>] driver_probe_device+0x31/0x87
<4> [<c02258a6>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x6b
<4> [<c02258ea>] __driver_attach+0x44/0x6b
<4> [<c0225236>] bus_for_each_dev+0x39/0x5b
<4> [<c02256cc>] driver_attach+0x16/0x18
<4> [<c02258a6>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x6b
<4> [<c0224f34>] bus_add_driver+0x6c/0x107
<4> [<c01ca932>] __pci_register_driver+0x61/0x7d
<4> [<e08660af>] piix_ide_init+0xaf/0xb3 [piix]
<4> [<c013987f>] sys_init_module+0x17fe/0x1981
<4> [<c015f3ed>] shmem_getpage+0x4f2/0x552
<4> [<c0103dc7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
<4>ide0: probed IRQ 14 and default IRQ 14 failed.
<6>ide0: failed to initialize IDE interface


####### END #######

Given this, I think i'll try going into BIOS and changing the IRQ setting.

thanks for your suggestion.
I'll write back with how it goes.

Michael

Fixed but leaves a new question
 

I don't understand it.
I went into bios and told it to reset to defaults.
this fixed the problem.
Given that every other OS and distribution (including other versions of suse)
could see the harddrive just fine, I wonder if there is something wrong with opensuse 10.2
Should I report this to the suse people or to someone else?

I don't know, but I had a similarly weird problem with SATA drives on a controller in the PCI slot. They worked in every disro except suse until I enabled bus mastering...