* Re: Promise FastTrak boot freeze on 2.4.12/+ac3
2001-10-20 1:18 Promise FastTrak boot freeze on 2.4.12/+ac3 Richard Garand
2001-10-20 1:30 ` Richard Garand
@ 2001-10-20 1:44 ` Craig Whitmore
2001-10-20 2:23 ` Richard Garand
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Craig Whitmore @ 2001-10-20 1:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Garand, linux-kernel
I have a promise Lite controller running in Raid1 mode using reiserfs
booting with lilo and it seems to work really well
Raid1 support was added in in 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 gives quite a few errors
with the fs, but the 2.4.12-ac2 works fine
Where did it get up to with you????
PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 80
PDC20265: chipset revision 2
ide: Found promise 20265 in RAID mode.
PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20265: ROM enabled at 0xdffd0000
PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER
Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hdd: ATAPI CDROM 48X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
hdg: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xd802 on irq 10
ide3 at 0xd400-0xd407,0xd002 on irq 10
hde: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdg: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100)
....
ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 ataraid/d0p2
Drive 0 is 39266 Mb (33 / 0)
Drive 1 is 39266 Mb (34 / 0)
Raid1 array consists of 2 drives.
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.03beta
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ataraid/d0p2 39936364 38069196 1867168 96% /
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/ataraid/d0p1 1 33 265041 82 Linux swap
/dev/ataraid/d0p2 34 5005 39937590 83 Linux native
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
boot=/dev/ataraid/d0
root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2
disk=/dev/ataraid/d0
bios=0x80
lba32
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
ignore-table
timeout=300
prompt
map=/boot/map
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks
Craig Whitmore
Orcon Internet
http://www.orcon.net.nz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Garand" <krogoth2@softhome.net>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 2:18 PM
Subject: Promise FastTrak boot freeze on 2.4.12/+ac3
> I'm using a Promise FastTrak 66 controller with a custom slackware 8
> bootdisk, and every time I try to boot it freezes after detecting hde,
hdg,
> ide10 ide2, and ide3 (I have one drive on each port on the controller in
> RAID0 and a CD on the main IDE bus). I tried with kernel 2.4.12 and
> 2.4.12-ac3, enabling both Promise FastTrak options (one for the
controller,
> one for IDE RAID) and software RAID. I've done searches on google and
their
> newsgroup archives and haven't found anything describing a solution to
this
> problem.
>
> I will do my best to provide any additional information that could help if
> this is a new problem, but it can be a bit slow since I can only transfer
it
> by swapping the video cable and using BioLink (TM of RealLife, INC).
> --
> Richard Garand
> krogoth2@softhome.net, r.garand@sk.sympatico.ca
> (L)ICQ: 12190132
> Then: I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too
> small to contain.
> Now: Microsoft has released an unremarkable product which your hard drive
is
> too small to contain.
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