From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gunnlaugur Thor Briem Subject: Re: Status of Promise drivers? Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 21:13:53 +0000 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40240391.7030209@hi.is> References: <20031230200012.C14399@nettis.grimsta> <3FF1CCC1.3050304@pobox.com> <20040203192336.A5570@nettis.grimsta> <4021099A.6090209@hi.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4021099A.6090209@hi.is> To: Gunnlaugur Thor Briem Cc: Daniel Brahneborg , Jeff Garzik , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Gunnlaugur Thor Briem wrote: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2011 [...] > Don't know about any other motherboards, but in any case your kernel is > likely to hang when trying to use a PDC 20376 (on a motherboard, as in > my case, or on a separate board), for the time being. ... and now he corrects himself. I just tried applying Ross Dickson's patches for APIC quirks on nForce2 chipsets: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/21/7 and that seems to have taken care of my problem completely. I have not tested for very long, but I got through the bonnie++ test suite; never even came close before. So the Promise controller and driver appear to be innocent of my woes, and I do not know any reason to think that your kernel will hang because of them. Sorry 'bout that. (And thanks Ross!) - Gulli