Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:15:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:14:52 -0500 Received: from bzq-128-3.bezeqint.net ([212.179.127.3]:62986 "HELO arava.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:14:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:15:10 +0200 (IST) From: Matan To: Holger Lubitz cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 160gb maxtor with promise ultra 100 In-Reply-To: <3C87C6CB.F05C3B96@internet-factory.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Holger Lubitz wrote: > hi, > > recently i installed two 160gb maxtor drives. using the latest ac-kernel > (.19-pre2-ac3), they were detected correctly. however, the promise ultra > 100 (detected as pdc 20267) hangs at the partition check. last thing it > prints is "hde:" and it's dead. however, if i connect the drives to the > onboard piix3 ide, they are detected correctly, survive the partition > check, and _do_ work as 160gb drives, but slow (piix3 only supports > mdma2, no udma). if i boot the latest non-ac-kernel available on the > machine (which is the not so recent 2.4.14) the drives are misdetected > as only 137gb (of course, no 48 bit support) but otherwise the machine > works, even with the drives connected to the promise. I had something similar - with 2.4.17+ide patch and PDC20265. The kernel hanged at exactly the same position. I moved the disk to hdg (master on second channel, instead of first), and it works OK. -- Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org - 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/