I appear to have found a problem reading from paride hard disks under
2.4.2
Reading from the raw block devices seems to be fine.
# dd if=/dev/pd/disc0/disc of=/dev/null
works.
However, accessing partitions on the device through VFS by mounting them
hangs the machine.
With vfat and msdos partitions:
# mount -t (vfat|msdos) /dev/pd/disc0/part1 /mnt
and then
# cat /mnt/* > /dev/null
or
# dd if=/mnt/drvspace.000 of=/dev/null
I eventually see the following error message, and all logins are
unresponsive. I can reboot with SysRq.
do_pd_read_drq: status = 0x10050 = SEEK READY TMO
Doing a similar test with an ext2 fs on the drive:
do_pd_read_drq: status = 0x10052 = SEEK READY TMO
Changing parallel port mode in the BIOS does not make any difference.
The paride controller is a Shuttle EPAT plus. The parallel port is an
Intel 82371AB (I think)
-- Ferret
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:37:38PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> do_pd_read_drq: status = 0x10050 = SEEK READY TMO
Please try a recent -ac kernel and let me know if the problem persists
or goes away.
Tim.
*/
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:10:11PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:37:38PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > do_pd_read_drq: status = 0x10050 = SEEK READY TMO
>
> Please try a recent -ac kernel and let me know if the problem persists
> or goes away.
ac25 appears to have this problem fixed.
Still got bit by the OOPS problem in my other post when I tried to
switch drives in the box, though.
-- Ferret