I'll have a go, but I'd read that others with the problem didn't have any success with it. Also, I manually reserved IRQ 11, and got the same problem, only with IRQ 5..... On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 13:25 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Jon manning wrote: > > I have a dual-boot Windows XP and Fedora core 2 system, on separate SATA > > hard drives interfaced via a Silicon Image 3112 PCI card. On both FC1 > > and FC2, detection of the drives via the card went fine with no probs at > > all. I'm now trying to upgrade to FC3, but am having a problem with the > > SATA drivers when I boot from the installation CD something like: > > > > "Loading SATA Sil driver..... disabling IRQ #11" > > > > At which point it hangs. It's the same with text version of > > installation. > > Can you try the card in a different PCI slot? > > Thanks, > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james | The sendmail configuration file is one of those > @westexe.demon.co.uk | files that looks like someone beat their head on > | the keyboard. After working with it... I can see > | why! >