[Bugme-new] [Bug 4192] New: sata_sis doesnt support sis965L

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http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192

           Summary: sata_sis doesnt support sis965L
    Kernel Version: 2.6.8,2.6.9,2.6.10
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocking
             Owner: drivers_other at kernel-bugs.osdl.org
         Submitter: ritu_turu at yahoo.com


Distribution:Any(tried Gentoo/Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu with latest kernels)
Hardware Environment:Sis motherboard K8S MX, AMD64(2800+), SATA HDD
Software Environment:GNU/Linux kernels 2.6.8 & 2.6.9
Problem Description:
I have a AMD64 +asus k8s mx motherboard(SIS chipset
760GX & sis 965L) + samsung 80GB sata. 

I am not able to install GNU/Linux on my system as
Linux does not detect my sata drive. I have tried
debian, gentoo , slackware, ubuntu, fedora, mepis(all above 2.6.8 kernels) etc.
without success.

All the above mentined distros do not have sata module
built into installer so i did ALT+F2 modprobe
sata_sis.
It loads libata and sata_sis but i do not see any hdd
drives under /proc/scsi/scsi.Neither is the drive
listed in /dev/hd* or /dev/sd*
lspci -n shows sata as 0000:00:05 Unknown device 0182.
Windows XP 64 bit works well on this system so there
is no hardware problem. There are no drivers available
from asus or sis for linux.

Sata_sis module upto 2.6.10 currently supports sis964
but mine is sis965L.

I have done a lot of googling and found only open
ended questions without any solution. Some answers on
google suggest a workaround to do install on IDE hdd
and then rebuild the kernel to include sata support
and then boot that kernel from SATA drive ---this
seems to be a bit time consuming and i dont have a IDE
drive currently. Also if there is no sis965L support
there is no use of this workaround to use IDE.
Please let me know if there is any other solution
or/and if someone has info that the future kernels
will support this chipset.

Additional info: 
i have even inserted all sata* scsi* raid*
modules(even sd_mod). Also did noapic noprob at
bootup. 

I am really keen to run GNU/Linux on my pc as i have
bought it to use blender3D with high redering speed of
64 bit AMD.

Thank you in anticipation.

Regards;
Rituraj




Steps to reproduce: Installing GNU/Linux any distro doesnt detect media for
partitioning.

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