Promise SuperTrak SX6000 w/ kernel 2.4.20

Promise SuperTrak SX6000 w/ kernel 2.4.20

[Sebastian Zimmermann]

Hello,

we are using a Promise SuperTrak RAID controller together with the
integrated i2o-drivers in the linux kernel 2.4.18. Everything works fine
so far.

Now we wanted to upgrade to kernel 2.4.20. Configuration was unchanged.
But now the system hangs at boot time:

When the IDE driver is loaded, it finds the system disk /dev/hda just
like before. But with 2.4.20 the IDE driver also finds disks /dev/hde,
/dev/hdf and so on which belong to the raid system. At this point many
"interrupt lost" messages appear on the screen and the system hangs. It
never gets far enough to load i2o.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sebastian

Re: Promise SuperTrak SX6000 w/ kernel 2.4.20

[Juergen "George" Sawinski]

It shouldn't find /dev/hde ... /dev/hdj (there's some problem with the
detection mechanism), as these are I2O devices, and thus it's
/dev/i2o/hd?. You have to stop the discovery process by adding 

hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe hdi=noprobe hdj=noprobe

to the lilo append variable.

BTW, I'm using 2.4.20-pre10-ac1 and it runs rock solid (despite some
1-10s stalls that seem to be controller related).

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:27, Sebastian Zimmermann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we are using a Promise SuperTrak RAID controller together with the
> integrated i2o-drivers in the linux kernel 2.4.18. Everything works fine
> so far.
> 
> Now we wanted to upgrade to kernel 2.4.20. Configuration was unchanged.
> But now the system hangs at boot time:
> 
> When the IDE driver is loaded, it finds the system disk /dev/hda just
> like before. But with 2.4.20 the IDE driver also finds disks /dev/hde,
> /dev/hdf and so on which belong to the raid system. At this point many
> "interrupt lost" messages appear on the screen and the system hangs. It
> never gets far enough to load i2o.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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Re: Promise SuperTrak SX6000 w/ kernel 2.4.20

[Sebastian Zimmermann]

Am Don, 2003-01-16 um 12.23 schrieb Juergen "George" Sawinski:
> It shouldn't find /dev/hde ... /dev/hdj (there's some problem with the
> detection mechanism), as these are I2O devices, and thus it's
> /dev/i2o/hd?. You have to stop the discovery process by adding 
> 
> hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe hdi=noprobe hdj=noprobe
> 
> to the lilo append variable.

Yes, thank you. Now I can boot. (I also had to add /dev/hdm and /dev/hdo
though.)

Nonetheless, I still consider this a kernel bug. The kernel should boot
without the workaround as it did with version 2.4.18.

Sebastian

Re: Promise SuperTrak SX6000 w/ kernel 2.4.20

[Andre Hedrick]

Try the Alan Cox patch set.
I should have fixed the mess introduced in 2.4.19 by the OEM vendor.

On 20 Jan 2003, Sebastian Zimmermann wrote:

> Am Don, 2003-01-16 um 12.23 schrieb Juergen "George" Sawinski:
> > It shouldn't find /dev/hde ... /dev/hdj (there's some problem with the
> > detection mechanism), as these are I2O devices, and thus it's
> > /dev/i2o/hd?. You have to stop the discovery process by adding 
> > 
> > hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe hdi=noprobe hdj=noprobe
> > 
> > to the lilo append variable.
> 
> Yes, thank you. Now I can boot. (I also had to add /dev/hdm and /dev/hdo
> though.)
> 
> Nonetheless, I still consider this a kernel bug. The kernel should boot
> without the workaround as it did with version 2.4.18.
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> 
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