Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965045AbXADT6N (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:58:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965063AbXADT6M (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:58:12 -0500 Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]:50907 "EHLO pfepc.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965045AbXADT6M (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:58:12 -0500 Subject: Re: BUG, 2.6.20-rc3 raid autodetection From: Kasper Sandberg To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: LKML Mailinglist In-Reply-To: <58cb370e0701041107n5369edfdj2efc871de0fe7d24@mail.gmail.com> References: <1167936465.6594.5.camel@localhost> <58cb370e0701041107n5369edfdj2efc871de0fe7d24@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:57:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1167940677.8595.1.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1479 Lines: 41 On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:07 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 1/4/07, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > Hello. > > > > i just attempted to test .20-rc3-git4 on a box, which has 6 drives in > > raid5. it uses raid autodetection, and 2 ide controllers (via and > > promise 20269). > > > > there are two problems. > > > > first, and most importantly, it doesent autodetect, i attempted with > > both the old ide drivers, and the new pata on libata drivers, the drives > > appears to be found, but the raid autoassembling just doesent happen. > > > > this is .17, which works: > > http://sh.nu/p/8001 > > > > this is .20-rc3-git4 which doesent work, in pata-on-libata mode: > > http://sh.nu/p/8000 > > > > this is .20-rc3-git4 which doesent work, in old ide mode: > > http://sh.nu/p/8002 > > For some reason IDE disk driver is not claiming IDE devices. > > Could you please double check that IDE disk driver is built-in > (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y in the kernel configuration) > and not compiled as module? i need not check even once, i do not have module support enabled, so everything 1000000% surely is built in. this is the case for .17 too (and earlier, this box was started with .15 i think.) > > Bart > - 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/