f7 dead and recovery disk hangs.

[Robert Cahn]

I have a F7 system.  It uses the x86_64 distribution.  We had a lightning
storm and I was away.  When I got back the system had hung and wouldn't
reboot.  When I tried to put in the recovery CD and restore the system it
loads in a number of SCSI drivers.  When it gets to, "Loading sata_sis
driver" progress halts.  After a while garbage fills the middle third of the
screen and the disk spins on and on.  I've tried to reinstall F7 but the
same thing happens.  It appears the sata_sis driver is corrupted and the
system cannot update without it.  Does anyone know a word around?

/Bob Cahn
Gipsy Trail Club
Carmel, NY 10512

[Sam Varshavchik]

Robert Cahn writes:

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>  I have a F7 system.  It uses the x86_64 distribution.  We had a lightning 
>  storm and I was away.  When I got back the system had hung and wouldn't 
>  reboot.  When I tried to put in the recovery CD and restore the system it 
>  loads in a number of SCSI drivers.  When it gets to, "Loading sata_sis 
>  driver" progress halts.  After a while garbage fills the middle third of 
>  the screen and the disk spins on and on.  I've tried to reinstall F7 but 
>  the same thing happens.  It appears the sata_sis driver is corrupted and 
>  the system cannot update without it.  Does anyone know a word around?  
If you cannot even boot the FC7 instaler, it strongly suggests that your 
hardware is fried.

[Paul Shaffer]

BS.  I see exactly the same symptom on one particular machine, which installs FC6 just
fine.

Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com&gt; wrote:  Robert Cahn writes:

>  « HTML content follows »
>  I have a F7 system.  It uses the x86_64 distribution.  We had a lightning 
>  storm and I was away.  When I got back the system had hung and wouldn't 
>  reboot.  When I tried to put in the recovery CD and restore the system it 
>  loads in a number of SCSI drivers.  When it gets to, "Loading sata_sis 
>  driver" progress halts.  After a while garbage fills the middle third of 
>  the screen and the disk spins on and on.  I've tried to reinstall F7 but 
>  the same thing happens.  It appears the sata_sis driver is corrupted and 
>  the system cannot update without it.  Does anyone know a word around?  
If you cannot even boot the FC7 instaler, it strongly suggests that your 
hardware is fried.

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[John Bowden]

On Thursday 28 June 2007 04:02:38 Robert Cahn wrote:
>  I have a F7 system.  It uses the x86_64 distribution.  We had a
> lightning
>  storm and I was away.  When I got back the system had hung and wouldn't
>  reboot.  When I tried to put in the recovery CD and restore the system it
>  loads in a number of SCSI drivers.  When it gets to, "Loading sata_sis
>  driver" progress halts.  After a while garbage fills the middle third of
>  the screen and the disk spins on and on.  I've tried to reinstall F7 but
>  the same thing happens.  It appears the sata_sis driver is corrupted and
>  the system cannot update without it.  Does anyone know a word around?
>
>  /Bob Cahn
>  Gipsy Trail Club
>  Carmel, NY 10512 
Try booting with a live distro and see if it sees your sata drive, it seems 
that either the drive or the controller chip may have bit the dust

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[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 04:13 +0100, John Bowden wrote:
>  Try booting with a live distro and see if it sees your sata drive,
> it
>  seems that either the drive or the controller chip may have bit the
>  dust  
Or the power supply.

I was given a few apparently dead computers that had suffered a surge.
In two of them, only the power supply was flakey.  Replacing that got
everything else working.

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[tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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I read messages from the public lists.

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:02:38 -0400
"Robert Cahn" <robertscahn(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I have a F7 system.  It uses the x86_64 distribution.  We had a
> lightning
>  storm and I was away.  When I got back the system had hung and wouldn't
>  reboot.  When I tried to put in the recovery CD and restore the system it
>  loads in a number of SCSI drivers.  When it gets to, "Loading sata_sis
>  driver" progress halts.  After a while garbage fills the middle third of the
>  screen and the disk spins on and on.  I've tried to reinstall F7 but the
>  same thing happens.  It appears the sata_sis driver is corrupted and the
>  system cannot update without it.  Does anyone know a word around? 
If reinstalling does the same (the installer uses its own copy of the
driver off CD) then the PC hardware probably got damaged by the storm, or
something else bad has happened with freak timing.

I would start from the beginning
	- Check all the system fans are running properly
	- Run memtest86 for a few hours 
	- If the SATA card is a plug in one reseat it in case it has
loosened/moved
	- Check the SATA cables
	- Move the SATA drive to another system and check the drive is ok
		(If it does back up any data you want at this point)

if that finds nothing obvious then put it all back together, boot it and
if it still happens go into the BIOS settings and use one of the 'reset
to defaults' options. If that still fails seek expert advice as you may
need to replace the motherboard and some other parts if it got hit by a
power surge.

Alan