[Discuss] intel sata hardware RAID & FC3

[Cody Swanson]

R. Langkamer wrote:
>
>     I need some help on this subject. I'm building a dev server box 
> for a friend and it has an intel hardware RAID SATA card with two SATA 
> drives hooked up.
>     I got FC3 installed but as soon as the kernel loads, the box beeps 
> which I take to mean "drive failure". When I look into 
> /var/log/messages I see this :
>
> sda:Adapter 0: SATA-A, ID 0: An IO failed due to an unrecoverable 
> media error
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEC00 ctl 0xE802 bmdma 0xDC00 irq 185
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE002 bmdma 0xDC08 irq 185
> ata1: SATA port has no device
> ata2: SATA port has no device
>
>     Now if I reboot and enter the hardware RAID config tool, it 
> reports both drives as ok, so I can only theorize that the kernel 
> currently in use does not have the correct modules loaded/installed. 
> Does this agree with anyone else?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> PS : this beeping is driving me up the wall
>
Check the intel site for a driver. I know I had to compile a module for 
a Dell cerc SATA raid card a few years ago so it would work on FC2. If 
you can't find a driver for that intel raid on the intel site then 
perhaps try compiling a newer kernel for the system or try a more recent 
version of Fedora or CentOS. Also, a small piece of tape over the piezo 
buzzer on the raid card will greatly reduce it's volume temporarily 
while you work out the issues.