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From: "Andrew Chan" <achan@achan.com>
To: "Andre Hedrick" <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Promise 20267 "working" but no UDMA
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:00:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01ba01c0bb53$4e607d80$91b54dca@portal2.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10104020024550.12531-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

Andre Hedrick says:

>> FastTrack config: only 1 drive, configured as a SPAN volume consisting of
1 drive

> No RAIDing allowed in the FTTK Bios.

But my motherboard hangs at boot time (while Fasttrack tests for arrays) if
there is no array defined! There is a message from the Fasttrack bios that
says something like "no array found, press some key to continue". But I need
to remotely reboot these servers!

>> The following is from dmesg:
>>
>> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:03.0
>> PDC20267: chipset revision 2
>> PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>> PDC20267: ROM enabled at 0xfeae0000
>> PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER
Mode.

> This is a RAID mode BIOS and that is specified to disable under linux
> unless a 0x55AA valid signature is present

>> PDC20267: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)

> And it does!

Which means? Can the Linux IDE driver be made to not deal with the Fasttrack
"raid" code and just treat the interface as normal non-raid ATA100
interfaces?

It is a real pity that Promise (the company) somehow doesn't seem to work
well with the Linux community. It is fast hardware (and I have 25 of them)
that lies useless for me right now.

Many thanks....

Andrew Chan




  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-02  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-01 11:13 Promise 20267 "working" but no UDMA Andrew Chan
2001-04-02  7:27 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-04-02  9:00   ` Andrew Chan [this message]
2001-04-02 16:20   ` Nerijus Baliunas
2001-04-24  5:04     ` Andre Hedrick
2001-04-03 10:58 ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2001-04-03 15:57   ` Andrew Chan
2001-04-03 16:30   ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2001-04-03 19:10     ` Juhani Rautiainen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-02 15:35 Andrew Chan

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