From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263195AbTDGCXS (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 22:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263196AbTDGCXR (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 22:23:17 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.65.60]:26736 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263195AbTDGCXQ (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 22:23:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3E90E3C5.80109@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 04:34:45 +0200 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruth Ivimey-Cook CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Problems booting PDC20276 with new IDE setup code. References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: > Since 2.4.20 I have not been able to boot Linux using more recent kernels > (tried 21-pre3, -pre6). > > The problem is that my /home is on a raid5 disks array connected to a PDC20276 > motherboard-mounted controller. The BIOS boots and detects all 4 disks, and > then enables IDE Master mode, as expetced. The kernel in 2.4.20 then uses the > disks in IDE master mode, but the pre3 and pre6 kernels say the BIOS hasn't > enabled the controller. Could you please try 2.4.21-pre7 (this has another batch of IDE updates) and enable the option "Special FastTrak Feature"? In your .config, the option would be CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y and report back to the list? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org