Mounting problem: SATA disk under FC6

[tokyoi at mac.com]

Dear All,

I have a problem with getting my system (FC6) to recognize a SATA 1 
drive. I have all four IDE slots taken up (three hard disks and a DVD 
drive), /boot is on /dev/hda1, other info reproduced below.

POST recognizes the PCI card for the SATA drive (SiI 3112A) but returns 
a "Drive not found" message for each of the two channels on the card. 
Pressing F4 or Ctrl-S, as indicated in the documentation) has no effect, 
the boot process continues straight to the GRUB screen. Hence I am not 
able to configure the card in the boot-up process. When I boot into FC6, 
the system recognizes the card but does not mount the disk itself. The 
Linux boot process returns device-not-found and mounting-failed messages 
for LABEL=/home2. Now for the funny bit: if I disconnect the power to 
the disk while FC6 is running, wait for the disk to spin down then power 
it up again, I can mount the drive with a simple sudo mount /home2 
command -- i.e. it mounts normally as per the fstab entry.

I am appending listings of fstab, lspci, /proc/scsi/scsi and 
modprobe.conf; any help would be gratefully received -- I would really 
like to be able to screw the side panel of the box back on!

Best wishes,

Ian Astley

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Listing of /etc/fstab (/home2 is the SATA drive):

[astley at tokyoii ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/home2            /home2                  ext3    defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/tmp              /tmp                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=SWAP-hda3         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdd1               /media/windowsNTFS_1    ntfs-3g 
auto,rw,user,defaults,utf8,umask=0000  0 0
/dev/hdd2               /media/windowsFAT32_1   vfat    
noauto,rw,user,defaults,utf8,umask=0000  0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           vfat    
noauto,rw,user,umask=0000 0 0


Listing of PCI devices:

[root at tokyoii ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL 
Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI 
Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation IEEE 1394 [OrangeLink] 
Host Controller (rev 03)
00:0a.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 
21142/43 (rev 41)
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 
6200] (rev a1)


SCSI device listing:

[astley at tokyoii ~]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: Maxtor 7L300S0   Rev: BANC
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05

And modprobe.conf says:

alias eth0 tulip
alias eth1 sis900
alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci
options snd-card-0 index=0  
options snd-cmipci index=0  
remove snd-cmipci { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-cmipci
options quickcam_messenger index=1  
remove quickcam_messenger { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || 
: ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove quickcam_messenger