2.4.20 Promise IDE RAID Locks up (gcc 3.2.1!)

2.4.20 Promise IDE RAID Locks up (gcc 3.2.1!)

[freaky]

Hey there,

I compiled 2.4.20 on gentoo 1.4rc2 (gcc 3.2.1). When emerging (compiling) X
my system often gives compile errors which I don't get on the second go, I
either get others or my system locks up. When the system locks up, and
rebooting with reset the IDE RAID controller where the disc I'm using under
linux is on is messed up. (In my case the disc is on the secondary IDE
controller). The controller will not find any disks on that controller on
reboot, the other one works fine. I have to power down before it will find
them again.

Also, probably unrelevant but I'd like to see if some other people have
experience with it and this might be a good place to look :-), I tried
compiling the module promise releases (it's sort of like the nVidia NVdriver
module) but it locks up my system after the banner (this was against
2.4.20xfs_pre2, the kernel used with the gentoo 1.4rc2). If anyone has any
experience with their module I'd like to hear their experiences with it.

Kind regards,

Ferry van Steen

Oh, the controller is a MBFastTrak133 Lite onboard on a MSI KT3 Ultra2-R.

Re: 2.4.20 Promise IDE RAID Locks up (gcc 3.2.1!)

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 19:55, freaky wrote:
> I compiled 2.4.20 on gentoo 1.4rc2 (gcc 3.2.1). When emerging (compiling) X
> my system often gives compile errors which I don't get on the second go, I

See the sig 11 questions in the FAQs on Linux. 99 out of 100 times that
kind of random gcc works, then it doesn't is bad RAM.

Re: 2.4.20 Promise IDE RAID Locks up (gcc 3.2.1!)

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 17:57, freaky wrote:
> One more ques... They told me they can't release open-source because it
> would make them lose their intellectual property. I was just thinking, if
> you build hardware, especially RAID controllers, doesn't that mean you
> sort-of bought a software RAID solution? That is, if their intellectual
> property is that much in their software? I feel like I might as well have
> gotten me a great linux supported IDE controller and use software RAID on
> it...

The analysis people (notably Arjan) have done strongly suggests that
they licensed their software raid stuff from someone as HPT and Promise
use a layout with a tiny mod, almost as if designed to be incompatible.

The big problem with raid people (hardware included) is that they want
desperately to keep their format controlled so that they can lock users
into their controllers unless the user is willing to do a full backup
and restore. In the hardware case people tend not to realise so much
that is all.

Alan