This is because RHEL5/CentOS5 moved to the new unified sata/pata driver. There is no way to "force" a sata device as IDE with this new driver, at least none which is reliable. Compile your own kernel and use the old ata driver (which contrary to its name, does support sata chipsets).
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, plug bert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > We recently had nasty problems with one of our major servers running Centos > 5.2 64-bit; based on the error logs the problem stems from a "defective" IDE > drive. > > First we tried replacing the mobo; worked for a while, but ultimately we > ended up with the same problem. > > Then we tried replacing the IDE drive; same problem > > Then we replaced everything -- the drive, the mobo, the RAID array; still > ended up with the same problem. > > All the while we were getting DriveSeekComplete errors in the logs; the > server also froze whenever there was very heavy disk I/O on the IDE drive. > > We finally resorted to using CentOS 4.7; the problem went away. We noticed > that the IDE device was detected as sda, so we suspect the problem may be > with the IDE driver that 5.2 is using. > > > Is there a way of forcing the kernel to use a certain driver such that all > devices are addressed as sd*? We may need to use 5.2 soon, and we really > wouldn't want to relive our personal nightmare before Christmas. > > tia > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
