Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269576AbTGJVPm (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:15:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269587AbTGJVPm (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:15:42 -0400 Received: from fw-az.mvista.com ([65.200.49.158]:50168 "EHLO zipcode.az.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269576AbTGJVPh (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:15:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0DDAB5.6060105@mvista.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:29:25 -0700 From: Steven Dake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samuel Flory CC: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andre@linux-ide.org, frankt@promise.com Subject: Re: IDE/Promise 20276 FastTrack RAID Doesn't work in 2.4.21, patch attached to fix References: <3F0DD66B.6080209@rackable.com> In-Reply-To: <3F0DD66B.6080209@rackable.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3669 Lines: 98 Samuel Flory wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Do you have "Special FastTrak Feature" enabled? >> >> > > Can we change the option to something that makes sense. I get the > feeling no one understands what it does at 1st glance. This is the > 2nd time I've seen a patch like this. I tried the kernel with fasttrack enabled because I saw something about forcing the bios, but either it doesn't work or it doesn't work with my adaptor. The patch does work, though. But I definately agree, special fasttrack feature should atleast have some useful help information for how it is used (if anyone knows?) -steve > >> -- >> Bartlomiej >> >> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Steven Dake wrote: >> >> >> >>> Folks, >>> >>> After I upgraded to 2.4.21, I noticed my Gigabyte motherboard with >>> onboard IDE Promise 20276 FastTrack RAID no longer works. The >>> following >>> patch fixes the problem, which appears to be an incomplete list of >>> devices in the ide setup code. There are probably other fasttrack RAID >>> adaptors that should be added to the setup code, but I don't know what >>> they are. >>> >>> Thanks >>> -steve >>> >> >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >> linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >diff -ur linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/Documentation/Configure.help linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/Documentation/Configure.help >--- linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/Documentation/Configure.help 2003-07-07 04:23:56.000000000 -0700 >+++ linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/Documentation/Configure.help 2003-07-10 05:53:27.000000000 -0700 >@@ -1297,9 +1297,12 @@ > > If unsure, say N. > >-Special FastTrak Feature >+Ignore FastTrak Bios and configure drives as IDE disks > CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE >- For FastTrak enable overriding BIOS. >+ Enable overriding BIOS RAID configuration. Without this option the >+ kernel may refuse to see your drives. Do not enable if you are >+ using Promise's binary module. This option is compatible with the >+ GPL ataraid driver. > > SiS5513 chipset support > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 >diff -ur linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/drivers/ide/Config.in linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/drivers/ide/Config.in >--- linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/drivers/ide/Config.in 2003-07-07 04:18:53.000000000 -0700 >+++ linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/drivers/ide/Config.in 2003-07-10 05:51:22.000000000 -0700 >@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ > dep_mbool ' Special UDMA Feature' CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI > dep_tristate ' PROMISE PDC202{68|69|70|71|75|76|77} support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI > if [ "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD" = "m" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW" = "m" ]; then >- bool ' Special FastTrak Feature' CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE >+ bool ' Ignore FastTrak Bios and configure drives as IDE disks' CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE > fi > dep_tristate ' RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 $CONFIG_X86 > dep_tristate ' SCx200 chipset support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200 $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/