Sorry to respond to such an old thread, but others have been having trouble with Intel ICH8 SATA Chipsets... - Art@JAX Eva Myers wrote: >>> I'm having some trouble installing SL44 on a new machine from World of >>> Computers. As far as WOC are aware, the only difference between this >>> machine and the one I was asking about in December is that the IDE >>> DVD-RW drive has been replaced by a SATA drive because they were >>> having difficulty getting a different version of Linux to communicate >>> with the IDE drive. >>> >>> >> It is not the hard drive which is the problem, it is your SATA controller. >> By any chance can you try to boot if from a (recent!) Knoppix live CD, >> and run 'lspci' for us? >> > > The output of lspci follows: > > > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) > 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) > > Serial ATA (SATA) Linux hardware/driver status report http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html http://www.google.com/search?q=Linux+SATA+ICH8 2. Hardware support Intel ICH "IDE" mode Driver name: ata_piix Summary: No TCQ/NCQ. Looks like a PATA controller, but with a few added, non-standard SATA port controls. Hardware does not support hotplug. "Warmplug" support is possible. Update: ICH6/7/8 include support for addressing the SATA PHY registers. This is not yet supported in Linux, mainly because some BIOS do not fill in the necessary (PCI BAR) resources. Update: Boot-time, probe-time issues continue to persist in some cases, related to the "PCS" register. The ata_piix driver in 2.6.18 and later provides a "force_pcs" module option to help users deal with this (values: 0=default, 1=ignore PCS, 2=honor PCS). Play around with 'force_pcs' if you have device detection problems. > This is more or less identical to the output of lspci on the older > machine that froze during the install process unless you used the > option pci=nommconf. > > barbu 14:52% diff osmosis-lspci shanghai-lspci > 25,26c25,26 > < 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101 (rev b1) > < 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05) > --- > >> 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 6101 (rev b1) >> 07:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05) >> > > (osmosis is the new one, shanghai is the old one.) > Eva. > >