From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:39:17 -0400 From: Simon Piette To: Michel Lanners Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Promise Ultra/66 Message-ID: <20000524143917.I1169@xim.bellglobal.com> Reply-To: spiette@generation.net References: <20000524130410.C1169@xim.bellglobal.com> <200005241756.TAA00723@piglet.grunz.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200005241756.TAA00723@piglet.grunz.lu>; from mlan@cpu.lu on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:56:00PM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: * Michel Lanners (mlan@cpu.lu) [000524 13:59]: > Hi Simon, > > On 24 May, this message from Simon Piette echoed through cyberspace: > [about the promise/66 in a Mac] > >> Forget about these old patches. Go to my PCI page: > >> > >> http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/pci.html > >> > >> and get yourself my latest patches for either 2.2.15 (kernel.org) or > >> 2.3.99-pre7 (linuxcare.au) kernels. For 2.2.15, you need Andre's patches > >> in addition to mine. Apply his IDE patches first. > > To all those interested: there are new patches up for 2.2.15; I screwed > up with the older ones. Went back to an old version of my PCI patches. > Damn ;-) > > > Great! It's working without a hitch (but with a few kernel args!). > > Which ones are those? I need none; I could do with idebus=xx for bus > frequency; but the default is ok... I use an IMS TwinTurbo card driver that I can't get to work in 2.2.15, so I'm stuck with 2.2.12. I've had to add some hde=noautotune and hde=4092,13,63 for an old Seagate ST32122A. None of those was needed with 2.2.15. > > > I have to say that I can't put my card in slot 3 or 4, but only in 1 or > > 2. Not an issue for me but you may want to know ... > > What was your machine again? There might be an issue either with bus > mastering (some brain-dead designs don't allow bus masters in all slots; > the Promise is a bus master) or with multiple PCI buses. In the first > case there's nothing you can do; in the second case I might have screwed > up my patches.... It's a Umax J700/180. lspci: 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03) 00:0d.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 4d38 (rev 01) 00:0e.0 Display controller: Integrated Micro Solutions Inc. IMS9129 (rev 01) 00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052 (rev 01) 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand Central I/O (rev 02) > > > Also, the Promise Card is the only one IDE controller on my Mac, but it > > gets detected at ide2 and ide3. Not an isssue for me neither :-) > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y in your .config; the option is 'Boot off-board > chipsets first'. I guess reserving two IDE buses that are not actually > probed is braindamaged PC legacy ;-) > > Be carefull when actually activating this, as your disks will change > devices, and your /etc/fstab will be out of sync! OK. thanks. Simon ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/