Linux 2.4.21-rc3 : IDE pb on Alpha

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

Hi all !

I've upgraded my Alpha's kernel to 2.4.21-rc3, but it hangs on IDE at boot.
Same with 2.4.21-rc2. It has been working one year on with 2.4.19-pre7 + Andre
Hedrick's IDE patch. I'm now recompiling without DMA support, just in case.
For info, this is a DS10, EV6/466, 256 MB RAM, with an ALI 1543 IDE controller.
The first IDE controller has an old WD23200 (3.2GB) disk attached, which hosts
the root FS. The second controller has a 120 GB Maxtor drive.

I tried to boot with ide[01]=reset, ide[01]=noprobe, but with no luck. I've
quickly written down the last messages during ide0=noprobe :

hdc: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue at ffff...?????, no I/O memory limit
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: attached ide-disk driver
------ stops here ------

I can play with sysrq during a few seconds, before the keyboard finally locks.
I'll try to get some pointers with SysRq-P.

If I boot with ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe, it goes further, even detects the SCSI
disks attached to an Adaptec controller, then panics because of a missing root
device, thus proving that IDE really is the culprit here :-)

GCC is 3.2.3. I could revert to an old 2.91.66 which is still installed on this
system, if needed.

The compilation just ended, I'll retry without DMA.

Cheers,
Willy

.config appended with all unset options stripped :


CONFIG_ALPHA=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_ALPHA_DP264=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_EISA=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_ALPHA_EV6=y
CONFIG_ALPHA_TSUNAMI=y
CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM=y
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_SRM_ENV=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m
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CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO=y
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_ISAPNP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_MD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID5=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_NAT=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS=y
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CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m
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CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE=m
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CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID=m
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CONFIG_VORTEX=m
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CONFIG_PCNET32=m
CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE=m
CONFIG_TULIP=m
CONFIG_TULIP_MWI=y
CONFIG_EEPRO100=m
CONFIG_8139TOO=m
CONFIG_ACENIC=m
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CONFIG_DL2K=m
CONFIG_E1000=m
CONFIG_TIGON3=m
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CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
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CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_I2C=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=m
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m
CONFIG_I2C_PROC=m
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_ALIM1535_WDT=m
CONFIG_ALIM7101_WDT=m
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=m
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
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CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
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CONFIG_ZISOFS_FS=y
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CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
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CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
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CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m
CONFIG_ALPHA_LEGACY_START_ADDRESS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_MATHEMU=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
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