From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262623AbTDGORK (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:17:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262639AbTDGORK (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:17:10 -0400 Received: from imap.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:3448 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262623AbTDGORI (for ); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:17:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3E918B13.4080805@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:28:35 +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: <5.2.0.9.0.20030407141330.00b346c0@mailhost.ivimey.org> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030407141330.00b346c0@mailhost.ivimey.org> 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: > At 03:34 07/04/2003, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> 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? > > For reasons reported in another mail (ac97 fails to build) my attempt at > pre7 failed. Also, as far as I know, the FastTrak feature enables the > Promise RAID mode: I am not using that. Instead, I just want 4 IDE disks > which will be bound using Linux raid5. No, without the "Special FastTrak Feature" you cannot see the disks at all, regardless if you want RAID or plain IDE. > Are you saying you want to know if the Promise mode works (independent > of whether I wish to use it?) I'm currently trying to find out if enabling the "Special FastTrak Feature" is hurting anyone. So far, it seems that enabling it only conflicts with the binary only driver from Promise. If you want to see your disks, please enable the feature. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org