Re: BUG, 2.6.20-rc3 raid autodetection

[Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:07 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On 1/4/07, Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > i just attempted to test .20-rc3-git4 on a box, which has 6 drives in
> > raid5. it uses raid autodetection, and 2 ide controllers (via and
> > promise 20269).
> >
> > there are two problems.
> >
> > first, and most importantly, it doesent autodetect, i attempted with
> > both the old ide drivers, and the new pata on libata drivers, the drives
> > appears to be found, but the raid autoassembling just doesent happen.
> >
> > this is .17, which works:
> > http://sh.nu/p/8001
> >
> > this is .20-rc3-git4 which doesent work, in pata-on-libata mode:
> > http://sh.nu/p/8000
> >
> > this is .20-rc3-git4 which doesent work, in old ide mode:
> > http://sh.nu/p/8002
> 
> For some reason IDE disk driver is not claiming IDE devices.
> 
> Could you please double check that IDE disk driver is built-in
> (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y in the kernel configuration)
> and not compiled as module?
i need not check even once, i do not have module support enabled, so
everything 1000000% surely is built in. this is the case for .17 too
(and earlier, this box was started with .15 i think.)

> 
> Bart
>