Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967714AbWLGCeE (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:34:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967709AbWLGCeD (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:34:03 -0500 Received: from 220-130-178-143.HINET-IP.hinet.net ([220.130.178.143]:58813 "EHLO areca.com.tw" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967714AbWLGCeB (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:34:01 -0500 Message-ID: <000301c719a9$70e4f8d0$2900a8c0@arecakevin> From: "Areca Support" To: "Bron Gondwana" , Cc: , References: <3193.213.203.144.13.1165423892.squirrel@mailserver.omnibit.it> <20061206230949.GA25461@brong.net> Subject: Re: Areca driver 2.6.19 on x86_64 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:43:09 +0800 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 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Dec 2006 02:24:05.0265 (UTC) FILETIME=[C4570010:01C719A6] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1764 Lines: 56 Dear Sir, This is Kevin Wang from Areca Technology, Tech-Support Team. regarding your problem, please trying to disable ACPI in kernel loader. if the problem happen as soon as driver loaded, it should be the IRQ releated issue. the motherboard bios didn't assigned a correct IRQ to controller, it makes the driver can't initialize controller. and in our experience, disable ACPI in kernel loader can solved this ussue in some distro. Best Regards, Kevin Wang Areca Technology Tech-support Division Tel : 886-2-87974060 Ext. 223 Fax : 886-2-87975970 Http://www.areca.com.tw Ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bron Gondwana" To: Cc: ; ; Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 7:09 AM Subject: Re: Areca driver 2.6.19 on x86_64 > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:51:32PM +0100, filip@euroweb97.com wrote: > > OS distro used: > > CentOS 4.4 x86_64 > > Kernel 2.6.19 with hand-crafted config, that we are > > able to use successfully with kernel 2.6.16.20. > > What patches were you applying to 2.6.16.20, since that didn't > have an Areca driver in it I presume you're at least using that. > > > Have you any suggestions to resolve this issue ? > > 32 bit kernel? I'm somewhat serious here, depending what applications > you're running on the machine. > > Otherwise, no clue sorry - we're running 32 bit kernels everywhere > even on the couple of new Core machines we have. > > Bron. - 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/