Bug 9985 - harddrake2 displays Intel ICH9R and ICH7 SATA controller as an unknown device
Summary: harddrake2 displays Intel ICH9R and ICH7 SATA controller as an unknown device
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 4
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2013-05-05 08:30 CEST by Oleg Bosis
Modified: 2015-09-22 21:40 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: ldetect
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harddrake2 displaying ICH9 SATA controller (111.64 KB, image/png)
2013-05-05 08:32 CEST, Oleg Bosis
Details
harddrake2 displaying 7-Series Chipset Family SATA controller (112.39 KB, image/png)
2013-05-05 17:56 CEST, Oleg Bosis
Details

Description Oleg Bosis 2013-05-05 08:30:43 CEST
Description of problem:
I've boot Mageia 3 RC LiveDVD KDE x86_64 on my desktop system and decided to see the list of my hardware detected by distro. Honestly I was a bit of shocked by the results. Harddrake can not correctly detect devices that previously was detected without any problems (beginning with at least Mandriva 2010.0).

This bug is about improper detection of Intel ICH9R SATA 6-channel controller in AHCI mode (see attached screenshot).

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How reproducible:
always

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Steps to Reproduce:
Oleg Bosis 2013-05-05 08:30:53 CEST

CC: (none) => olegbosis

Comment 1 Oleg Bosis 2013-05-05 08:32:56 CEST
Created attachment 3890 [details]
harddrake2 displaying ICH9 SATA controller
Oleg Bosis 2013-05-05 08:33:09 CEST

Hardware: i586 => x86_64

Manuel Hiebel 2013-05-05 12:03:33 CEST

Source RPM: (none) => ldetect

Comment 2 Oleg Bosis 2013-05-05 17:56:23 CEST
Created attachment 3893 [details]
harddrake2 displaying 7-Series Chipset Family SATA controller

Seems like it's not only ICH9 desktop controller issue. 7-Series Chipset Family SATA controller on my laptop is also displayed as an unknown device.
Comment 3 Thomas Backlund 2013-05-06 11:42:28 CEST
Its not a misdetection bug as such, as in that case you wouldn't be able to boot your hw.

the ahci module is now builtin, wich leads to the controller ending up in "Unknown/Others" as "Module: unknown"

I guess we could do some coding that would read /lib/modules/'uname -r'/modules.builtin and display the info as "Module: builtin" or something like that..

Either way, it wont probably be fixed for mga3 as the system still works so it's more a "cosmetic" one

CC: (none) => tmb
Severity: major => normal

Comment 4 Oleg Bosis 2013-05-06 13:50:50 CEST
Even though is looks like cosmetic there are too many such bugs in harddrake: SATA controllers are "unknown", multimedia devices are put into "keyboard" section, web-cams listed twice (as a webcam and as unknown), CPU cache instead of RAM info in "memory" section...
These all make harddrake an unusable crap. People would just laugh at the distro. harddrake is one of the key Mageia features (as a part of drakxtools) so I think it's better to try to do something with it before release. drakxtools is a face of Mageia and these tools should display hardware data correctly.
Comment 5 claire robinson 2013-05-06 14:47:23 CEST
There are still a number of serious bugs which need to be fixed before release which have to be prioritised. As nice as it would be to be able to make a perfect release there is too much work and not enough volunteers to do so. 

Everybody is free to "do something" though Oleg, Mageia is a community, perhaps you could work on it?
Comment 6 Oleg Bosis 2013-05-06 17:31:18 CEST
Unfortunately I'm a C/C++ programmer and have too little experience with perl so I can help with something else but not with drakxtools...
V P 2014-06-05 20:23:02 CEST

CC: (none) => yohonet

V P 2014-06-05 20:25:38 CEST

Version: 3 => 4
Summary: harddrake2 displays Intel ICH9R SATA controller as an unknown device => harddrake2 displays Intel ICH9R and ICH7 SATA controller as an unknown device

Comment 7 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-21 13:21:40 CEST
Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

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Comment 8 Oleg Bosis 2015-09-22 21:37:19 CEST
The bug doesn't exist in MGA5 so it could be closed...
Comment 9 Rémi Verschelde 2015-09-22 21:40:46 CEST
Thanks, closing then.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD


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