2002-07-01 20:20:34

by Pozsar Balazs

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Subject: HPT370 + ACPI -> freeze (doesn't boot)


Hi all!

I have an abit VP6 mobo with the integrated HPT370 ide-controller.
If I enable ACPI support, and I connect any harddisk to the hpt host, my
system locks up hard during boot while initializing the drive(s) on the
hpt controller (ie. before printing the 'hde:...' line). The hard drive's
led remains lit.

I attached the lspci output if that helps.

I tried the follow releases/branches, all of them locked up:
2.4.18
2.4.19-rc1
2.4.19-pre7 + ide.all.convert.10
2.4.19-pre10-ac2
2.4.19-pre8-jp13
2.4.18-wolk3.5-rc2


If I pass the 'acpi=off' option to the kernel, it does boot but obviously
I don't have acpi support that way :(.


Thanks for any help, I am willing to test any patches!

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pozsy


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2002-07-01 22:14:14

by Arnvid Karstad

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Subject: Re: HPT370 + ACPI -> freeze (doesn't boot)

Hiya,

Pozsar Balazs writes:
> I have an abit VP6 mobo with the integrated HPT370 ide-controller.
> If I enable ACPI support, and I connect any harddisk to the hpt host, my
> system locks up hard during boot while initializing the drive(s) on the
> hpt controller (ie. before printing the 'hde:...' line). The hard drive's
> led remains lit.

I have a similar system to yours, but I have drives only on the hpt370
controller. My system boots, but crashes after 5 to 15 minuttes regardless
of usage. (I've posted this to this list on a previous occation.)

My system is running on dual P3-866 cpu's, but I don't think that this is of
any importance to the configuration. I haven't really tried to run any
patches. Do you have any similar problems when running a clean 2.4.18? Or
does your system only freeze?

> If I pass the 'acpi=off' option to the kernel, it does boot but obviously
> I don't have acpi support that way :(.

I haven't tried this. But my system is not exactly freezing, just I cant
access the drives anymore.


> Thanks for any help, I am willing to test any patches!

If u find anything that works, could you send me a note aswell? Since I've
been wanting to run Linux on my machine for a while now and my systems seems
to preform better when the drives are connected to the HPT370 than the other
internal VIA ide controller. Atleast this is the 'general' feeling I have
after experimenting with a few things under windows 2000 pro.

Best regards,

Arnvid Karstad

2002-07-01 22:48:37

by Xavier Bestel

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Subject: Re: HPT370 + ACPI -> freeze (doesn't boot)

Le mar 02/07/2002 ? 00:16, Arnvid Karstad a ?crit :
> Hiya,
>
> Pozsar Balazs writes:
> > I have an abit VP6 mobo with the integrated HPT370 ide-controller.
> > If I enable ACPI support, and I connect any harddisk to the hpt host, my
> > system locks up hard during boot while initializing the drive(s) on the
> > hpt controller (ie. before printing the 'hde:...' line). The hard drive's
> > led remains lit.
>
> I have a similar system to yours, but I have drives only on the hpt370
> controller. My system boots, but crashes after 5 to 15 minuttes regardless
> of usage. (I've posted this to this list on a previous occation.)

Mine (ABit VP6, some drives on both controllers) either stops at
"hde:..." at boot or freezes a bit later when ACPI is on with stable
kernels (or -ac ones). Without ACPI it runs pretty well, unless I use
USBnet.

Xav


2002-07-02 04:54:34

by Ulrich Wiederhold

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Subject: Re: HPT370 + ACPI -> freeze (doesn't boot)

Hi,

my kernel (still 2.4.17-rc2) boots from hde and finds hde and hdg during
bootup.
After the boot-prozess is finished, I can't access the drives anymore.
(I have only /boot on hde1, the rest on scsi-disks).

I will try 2.4.19 if it's finish.

If you find a solution, pls msg me as well, thanks.

Uli

--
'The box said, 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so i installed Linux - TKK 5

2002-07-03 18:53:53

by Pozsar Balazs

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Subject: Re: HPT370 + ACPI -> freeze (doesn't boot)


Hi,

I tried
2.4.18 + acpi-20020611
and
2.4.18 + acpi-20020611 + pciirq-27

but both of them freeze the same way :(.


I noticed that it is not an immediate freeze though. alt-sysrq-T works for
about 5 seconds... after that, nothing.


If you do think the call traces would do help, I might take time to do
write them down.


On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Dominik Brodowski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:33:32AM +0200, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> >
> > I tried 2.4.18-pre8 + acpi-20020503 + pciirq-18 and the same freeze :(
> pciirq-18 is buggy, unfortunately. Could you please get the latest
> acpi-patch from
> http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/ ?
> Thanks.
>
> Dominik
>

--
pozsy