I've been attempting to get two Promise Ultra66 controllers working
with an Asus P2B-F motherboard. I've got one controller successfully
working, but as soon as I stick the second controller in the computer,
the system refuses to boot.
With 2.2.18 and the linux-ide patches (Uniform E-IDE 6.30), the
computer refuses to boot if there are no bootable drives on the
motherboard's IDE controllers. I have 4 hard drives on the promise
ultra66, and a cdrom drive on the motherboard's controller. I've
tried setting the BIOS IDE/SCSI first option to SCSI, and it still
doesn't work.
I moved my boot drive to the motherboard's controller, and then linux
boots, but after detecting IDE devices, it hangs just after printing:
ide1 at ...
ide2 at ...
ide3 at ...
I don't have the exact messages at hand, but can produce them...
Any ideas? Can this work? I've read on the Promise site that
flashing the second controller with their "dummy" BIOS may make a
difference, but I'm not sure.
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Adrian Chung
Adrian Chung ([email protected]) wrote on 4 February 2001 15:53:
>I've been attempting to get two Promise Ultra66 controllers working
>with an Asus P2B-F motherboard. I've got one controller successfully
>working, but as soon as I stick the second controller in the computer,
>the system refuses to boot.
>
>With 2.2.18 and the linux-ide patches (Uniform E-IDE 6.30), the
>computer refuses to boot if there are no bootable drives on the
>motherboard's IDE controllers.
The same happens with a P2B-DS. It has nothing to do with the kernel,
the bios doesn't try to boot (from floppy in my case).
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:11:03AM -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Adrian Chung ([email protected]) wrote on 4 February 2001 15:53:
> >I've been attempting to get two Promise Ultra66 controllers working
> >with an Asus P2B-F motherboard. I've got one controller successfully
> >working, but as soon as I stick the second controller in the computer,
> >the system refuses to boot.
> >
> >With 2.2.18 and the linux-ide patches (Uniform E-IDE 6.30), the
> >computer refuses to boot if there are no bootable drives on the
> >motherboard's IDE controllers.
>
> The same happens with a P2B-DS. It has nothing to do with the kernel,
> the bios doesn't try to boot (from floppy in my case).
The BIOS doesn't try to boot, but if I switch my bootable linux drive
from the Ultra66 to the motherboard's controller, it boots just fine.
Up until it detects ide devices and tries to scan the hard drives.
Then linux just hangs...
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Adrian Chung - [email protected]