Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.4.18 Promise driver (IDE) hangs @ boot withPromise 20267

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 2002.06.12 Braden McGrath wrote:
>>   You might try Alan Cox's ac kernel.  2.4.19pre10ac2 seems 
>> to work bit better on the Promise controllers for me.  You 
>> will need to patch in 2.4.19pre10, and then 2.4.19pre10ac2.
>> 
>> http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/
>>
>http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.19/
>
>Thanks, I'll give it a try... Will I experience any problems trying to
>get XFS into this kernel as well?  I start with 2.4.18 to patch to the
>pre* series, correct?  (I'm not used to running bleeding edge...)  I'm
>guessing the order would be:
>2.4.18 (stock)
>+XFS
>+.19pre10
>+pre10ac2

If you want the changes present in pre10 _and_ xfs _and_ LVM,
get the -aa kernel. Version pre10-aa2 has xfs included.
You can get the original at

http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.19pre10aa2.gz
http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.19pre10aa2/

Or a copy at:
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.19-pre10-jam2/00-aa-pre10aa2.bz2

I talk about the copy because in the same location you also have Andre's
ide-convert.10 IDE update patch:

http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.19-pre10-jam2/40-ide-10.bz2

You can try with those patches to see if this gives any help (note: IDE's patch
is not the original, it has been edited to merge with -aa, so I can have made
a mistake -- if it works someone could give it a thorough test, I have not
the hardware...)


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