Comment 16 for bug 106931

Just to follow up on my issue with this. I'm up and running on 7.04, but in order to get this going I had to recompile kernel. As I mentioned above, this is an issue with the switch to the libata interface for older PATA-style drives. It's just not quite "there" yet stability-wise as evidenced by all the problems people have had with it since it was put into the kernel. in order to get up and running, I compiled all of the libata modules OUT of the kernel, and compiled in the old it821x module. I also had to modify the initrd by adding the it821x module (and deleting the pata_it821x module) and everything is running happy now - I can see all of my drives on my ITE RAID controller.

As an aside, I'm surprised the switch was made during the betas at the last minute by the kernel devs to this interface. This is marked as EXPERIMENTAL in the kernel source tree. I've followed some bug reports and it looks like Alan Cox has done quite a bit of work on this problem and several changes were merged into the upcoming 2.6.23 kernel ..... hopefully 7.10 will run on this kernel or it will be backported. Till that time looks like you'll either have to run Dapper or Edgy, or re-compile your kernel for later distributions.