When I boot linux on this system and there is a disk attached to the promise
connector, the system hard locks. It finds the PDC20267 and the Via ide
chipsets (in that order) and freezes here. It doesn't show anything else.
I tried kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.19-pre10.
I also tried making ide a module, loading ide-mod.o freezes as well.
Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine. I tried a
Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.
The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:20, William Thompson wrote:
> When I boot linux on this system and there is a disk attached to the promise
> connector, the system hard locks. It finds the PDC20267 and the Via ide
> chipsets (in that order) and freezes here. It doesn't show anything else.
>
> I tried kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.19-pre10.
>
> I also tried making ide a module, loading ide-mod.o freezes as well.
>
> Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine. I tried a
> Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.
>
> The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31
> -
FWIW, I also have this exact problem on a MSI 694D Pro Ar Mainboard,
with an onboard Promise PDC20265.
Every kernel I've tried (up to 2.4.19-pre7) froze hard right after
detecting the promise controller. It only hangs if there is a (any)
device plugged into the controller.
(Don't have much more info at this point, I needed this box for work, so
it got stuck with w2k, while my primary linux box is a ump 566. <sigh>
I'd love to swap these two boxes, the 694 has a pair of 933's and a gig
of memory, and sits mostly idle)
--
Don Krause
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 18:20, William Thompson wrote:
> Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine. I tried a
> Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.
>
> The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31
When 2.4.19pre10-ac2 appears please try that. I've merged a couple of
small fixes from Promise (not all the ones they want sorting - some of
it is a bit hairy so I'll let Andre do that 8))
Alan
> > Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine. I tried a
> > Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.
> >
> > The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31
>
> When 2.4.19pre10-ac2 appears please try that. I've merged a couple of
> small fixes from Promise (not all the ones they want sorting - some of
> it is a bit hairy so I'll let Andre do that 8))
Ok. where do I get the ac patches at? It's been a long time since I tried
one.
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 18:46, William Thompson wrote:
> Ok. where do I get the ac patches at? It's been a long time since I tried
> one.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/..
> > Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine. I tried a
> > Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.
> >
> > The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31
>
> When 2.4.19pre10-ac2 appears please try that. I've merged a couple of
> small fixes from Promise (not all the ones they want sorting - some of
> it is a bit hairy so I'll let Andre do that 8))
[root@test:/] cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse
running use aveq
33 0 5001412 hde 25414 381073 3251824 177230 0 0 0 0 2 306060 -131520
33 1 48163 hde1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 2 3004155 hde2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 3 1092420 hde3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 4 1 hde4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 5 393561 hde5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 6 265041 hde6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
33 7 192748 hde7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 0 5001412 hda 2 3 16 30 0 0 0 0 -1 308750 -308750
3 1 4988151 hda1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
[root@test:/] uname -a
Linux corp84 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 #2 SMP Thu Jun 6 10:20:02 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
[root@test:/]
Looks like it works for me... I haven't heavily used hde yet. HD[AE] are
quantum fireballlct10 05