Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:44:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:44:25 -0400 Received: from smtp2.orcon.net.nz ([210.55.12.15]:20235 "EHLO smtp2.orcon.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:44:13 -0400 Message-ID: <00e401c15908$cacf05a0$0400000a@LENNON> From: "Craig Whitmore" To: "Richard Garand" , In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Promise FastTrak boot freeze on 2.4.12/+ac3 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:44:42 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have a promise Lite controller running in Raid1 mode using reiserfs booting with lilo and it seems to work really well Raid1 support was added in in 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 gives quite a few errors with the fs, but the 2.4.12-ac2 works fine Where did it get up to with you???? PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 80 PDC20265: chipset revision 2 ide: Found promise 20265 in RAID mode. PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20265: ROM enabled at 0xdffd0000 PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hdd: ATAPI CDROM 48X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive hdg: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xd802 on irq 10 ide3 at 0xd400-0xd407,0xd002 on irq 10 hde: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100) hdg: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100) .... ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 ataraid/d0p2 Drive 0 is 39266 Mb (33 / 0) Drive 1 is 39266 Mb (34 / 0) Raid1 array consists of 2 drives. Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.03beta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ataraid/d0p2 39936364 38069196 1867168 96% / ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ataraid/d0p1 1 33 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/ataraid/d0p2 34 5005 39937590 83 Linux native ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- boot=/dev/ataraid/d0 root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2 disk=/dev/ataraid/d0 bios=0x80 lba32 install=/boot/boot-menu.b ignore-table timeout=300 prompt map=/boot/map image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Craig Whitmore Orcon Internet http://www.orcon.net.nz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Garand" To: Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: Promise FastTrak boot freeze on 2.4.12/+ac3 > I'm using a Promise FastTrak 66 controller with a custom slackware 8 > bootdisk, and every time I try to boot it freezes after detecting hde, hdg, > ide10 ide2, and ide3 (I have one drive on each port on the controller in > RAID0 and a CD on the main IDE bus). I tried with kernel 2.4.12 and > 2.4.12-ac3, enabling both Promise FastTrak options (one for the controller, > one for IDE RAID) and software RAID. I've done searches on google and their > newsgroup archives and haven't found anything describing a solution to this > problem. > > I will do my best to provide any additional information that could help if > this is a new problem, but it can be a bit slow since I can only transfer it > by swapping the video cable and using BioLink (TM of RealLife, INC). > -- > Richard Garand > krogoth2@softhome.net, r.garand@sk.sympatico.ca > (L)ICQ: 12190132 > Then: I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too > small to contain. > Now: Microsoft has released an unremarkable product which your hard drive is > too small to contain. > - > 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/ > - 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/