Well I have searched google, these forums, justlinux.com's forums and haven't found any solution, but many old posts stating this has been an issue. I recently downloaded Fedora Core 4, this is my first go at Fedora, or any Red Hat related linux, I've been running Slackware for a while now, but I wasn't using my SATA raid.

Anyway, I have a SATA RAID Silicon Image 3112A on-board (fakeraid) controller, that locks up the install when it tries to load the drivers. Here is the exact problem I have.

The installer starts and tries to load the sata drivers:

Loading sata_sil driver Disabling IRQ #11

It says the above and hangs. Anybody know where I can go with this. I have only SATA drives in this system now, they are striped, and half of the total stripe is dedicated to linux, while the other half is for windows.

I have the same motherboard and a very similar question. I have an ATA drive installed with Fedora Core 4. (Which I'm using to post this question.) Hanging off the SATA controller is a Maxtor 200 GB drive that has Windows XP Pro installed on it.

Is there something that I'm missing on getting FC4 to see the SATA drive?

Dan Richardson

Hi all,

i have similar hardware (sata silicon image 3112a on a abit NF7-S), i maybe a clue for you.
I had the same problem with modprobe sata_sil (disabling irq #11),
I found a solution whith the activation of all IO_APIC features in kernel (2.6.13 work OK with that).

hope this help

Hi,

Having same problem with Fedora 4, siL 3112A SATARaid Bios Version 4.2.47. New install. Failing and hanging on installing at driver install.

Did anyone solve this problem

Thanks