Hi,
I purchase a Promise SuperTrak100 RAID controler and
installed on a PIII dual with latest kernel 2.4.3. It didn't
work, so I searched the linux-kernel achives and found an exact
discription of my problem by David Priban on Feb. 27 2001
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0102.3/0037.html).
Andrew Morton and Alan Cox gave an hand. I follow hte hists
and advance a bit, and as David, now I get a bunch of I/O errors
on mounted array. After this there was a sugestion of timing problems,
but the issue ended with no solution.
Could any one help me, please!
Let me thank you in advance for any help.
I have no problem starting the i2o_block modules, I can
run a create a partition, but when I try to make a file system
I get a lot of I/O erros:
> modprobe i2o_block
> fdisk /dev/i2o/hd/disc0/disc
> mkreiserfs /dev/i2o/hd/disc0/part1
syslog:
Linux I2O PCI support (c) 1999 Red Hat Software.
I2O Core - (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
i2o: Checking for PCI I2O controllers...
i2o: I2O controller on bus 1 at 25.
i2o: PCI I2O controller at 0xFE000000 size=4194304
i2o/iop0: Installed at IRQ22
i2o: 1 I2O controller found and installed.
I2O: Event thread created as pid 1029
Activating I2O controllers...
This may take a few minutes if there are many devices
i2o/iop0: Reset rejected, trying to clear
i2o/iop0: LCT has 10 entries.
i2o/iop0: Configuration dialog desired.
Target ID 0.
Device: IxWorks
Rev: 0201
Class: Executive
Subclass: 0x0001
Flags: PM
Target ID 8.
Vendor: PROMISE TECH.
Device: I2O RAID ISM
Rev: V1.0.0
Class: Device Driver Module
Subclass: 0x0021
Flags: PM
Target ID 9.
Vendor: PROMISE TECH.
Device: I2O IDE HDM
Rev: 0.02
Class: Device Driver Module
Subclass: 0x0020
Flags: PM
Target ID 10.
Vendor: VENDOR-UNKNOWN
Device: IBM-DTLA-307060
Rev: TX8OA50C
Class: Block Device
Subclass: 0x0000
Flags: CPM
Target ID 12.
Vendor: VENDOR-UNKNOWN
Device: IBM-DTLA-307060
Rev: TX8OA50C
Class: Block Device
Subclass: 0x0000
Flags: CPM
Target ID 13.
Vendor: VENDOR-UNKNOWN
Device: IBM-DTLA-307060
Rev: TX8OA50C
Class: Block Device
Subclass: 0x0000
Flags: CPM
Target ID 14.
Vendor: VENDOR-UNKNOWN
Device: IBM-DTLA-307060
Rev: TX8OA50C
Class: Block Device
Subclass: 0x0000
Flags: CPM
Target ID 15.
Vendor: VENDOR-UNKNOWN
Device: IBM-DTLA-307060
Rev: TX8OA50C
Class: Block Device
Subclass: 0x0000
Flags: CPM
Target ID 16.
Vendor: VENDOR-UNKNOWN
Device: IBM-DTLA-307060
Rev: TX8OA50C
Class: Block Device
Subclass: 0x0000
Flags: CPM
Target ID 17.
Vendor: PROMISE TECH.
Device: I2O RAID DEVICE
Rev: V1.0.0
Class: Block Device
Subclass: 0x0000
Flags: PM
i2o/iop0: No handler for event (0x02000000)
I2O Block Storage OSM v0.9
(c) Copyright 1999, 2000 Red Hat Software.
i2o_block: registered device at major 80
i2ob: Installing tid 17 device at unit 0
Max Segments set to 12
Byte limit is 6144.
i2o/hda: Type 1- 293220Mb, 512 byte sectors.
i2o/hda: Maximum sectors/read set to 255.
i2o/hda: p1
devfs: devfs_register(disc): NULL ops, got d0c18ef0 from major table
/dev/i2o/hda error: Device is not ready
end_request: I/O error, dev 50:00 (i2o block), sector 22600
/dev/i2o/hda error: Device is not ready
end_request: I/O error, dev 50:00 (i2o block), sector 22600
(errors repeat many times)
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Joao Martins [email protected]
Av. Elias Garcia, 14-1 Tel: +351 21 797 3880
1000-149 Lisboa Portugal Fax: +351 21 793 4631
On Mon, Apr 09 2001, Joao Paulo Martins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I purchase a Promise SuperTrak100 RAID controler and
[snip, SuperTrak not working]
I tried talking to Promise recently to get a sample SuperTrak to
make this work, but no such luck. So bother Promise and ask what
they intend to do about it.
--
Jens Axboe
> > I purchase a Promise SuperTrak100 RAID controler and
> [snip, SuperTrak not working]
>
> I tried talking to Promise recently to get a sample SuperTrak to
> make this work, but no such luck. So bother Promise and ask what
> they intend to do about it.
I've been talking constructively to promise about the i2o on the supertrak
not working straight off with the kernel i2o driver. Currently it looks
promising
On Tue, Apr 10 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I purchase a Promise SuperTrak100 RAID controler and
> > [snip, SuperTrak not working]
> >
> > I tried talking to Promise recently to get a sample SuperTrak to
> > make this work, but no such luck. So bother Promise and ask what
> > they intend to do about it.
>
> I've been talking constructively to promise about the i2o on the supertrak
> not working straight off with the kernel i2o driver. Currently it looks
> promising
Good, glad someone is having more luck than I. I'd love to see it
work, hence my interest in getting it working.
--
Jens Axboe
Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 10 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > I purchase a Promise SuperTrak100 RAID controler and
> > > [snip, SuperTrak not working]
> > >
> > > I tried talking to Promise recently to get a sample SuperTrak to
> > > make this work, but no such luck. So bother Promise and ask what
> > > they intend to do about it.
> >
> > I've been talking constructively to promise about the i2o on the supertrak
> > not working straight off with the kernel i2o driver. Currently it looks
> > promising
>
> Good, glad someone is having more luck than I. I'd love to see it
> work, hence my interest in getting it working.
>
> --
> Jens Axboe
Let's hope for Alan Cox luck with Promise.
I'd love to see it working too, I made some investements to bild a
raid5
array based on the linux support "promise".
--
Joao Martins.
>>>>> "AC" == Alan Cox <[email protected]> writes:
>> I tried talking to Promise recently to get a sample SuperTrak
>> to make this work, but no such luck. So bother Promise and ask
>> what they intend to do about it.
AC> I've been talking constructively to promise about the i2o on
AC> the supertrak not working straight off with the kernel i2o
AC> driver. Currently it looks promising
Pun intended? :) Anyways, I too am interested hearing how this
goes. If it isn't going to work out, I'm going to figure out how snip
the PCI line ID'ing it as a RAID. If Promise comes through, then I
don't have to mutilate the card. :)
--
Chris Bayly
Email: [email protected] | CNS, UNIX Support
| 151 General Services Building
| University of Alberta
Web: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cbayly/ | Edmonton, Alberta
| Canada T6G 2S7
While you are at it, can you bug them for FastTrak (the software RAID thing)
support?
Their drivers are ages behind and Andre doesn't seem to be able to get them
cooperate either.
I have many many boards with their FastTrak chip on and I cannot use it
either as FastTrak or even simple ATA100 controller. I'd happy if I can use
it even as simple ATA100 controller.
Andrew Chan
==
Alan Cox says:
I've been talking constructively to promise about the i2o on the supertrak
not working straight off with the kernel i2o driver. Currently it looks
promising
> While you are at it, can you bug them for FastTrak (the software RAID thing)
> support?
At some point. They seem very keen not to co-operate on the fasttrak so its
probably best to avoid motherboards that have the fasttrak chipset and tell
the board vendor why.
Alan