2001-02-01 15:20:36

by Silviu Marin-Caea

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Subject: 2.4.1 DAC960 driver bug or what's going on?

Hardware:
A plain and honest Intel BX mainboard (AOpen AX6BC with latest BIOS
update), Pentium II/333, 64MB RAM, dumb PCI 1MB video card, Mylex
AcceleRAID 170 PCI controller, Quantum Atlas IV hard-disks.

Kernel 2.4.1

I want to install the system on the RAID volume, and for this purpose I
compiled the DAC960/DAC1100 driver into the kernel.

Made a boot floppy from RedHat distribution images and copied my kernel
with Mylex support on it.

Here are the relevant messages

[...]
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0d.1
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers
[...]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.1
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2
DAC960: ***** DAC960 RAID Driver version 2.4.9 of 7 September 2000 *****
DAC960: Copyright 1998-2000 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[email protected]>
Kernel panic: DAC960: Logical Drive Block Size 0 not supported

I really don't know what the other device on IRQ 11 would be, since
there are no other add-in cards than video and RAID controller.

Same thing happened on an EPoX mainboard, before I tried the controller
with this hardware. No matter what IRQ Mylex gets, linux says there's
another device using it. What would be that device? PS/2 mouse
controller, perhaps? Why does it stick to Mylex?

Thank you for your help.
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2001-02-01 15:31:26

by Alan

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Subject: Re: 2.4.1 DAC960 driver bug or what's going on?

> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.1
> PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2

That bit is fine

> DAC960: ***** DAC960 RAID Driver version 2.4.9 of 7 September 2000 *****
> DAC960: Copyright 1998-2000 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[email protected]>
> Kernel panic: DAC960: Logical Drive Block Size 0 not supported
>
> I really don't know what the other device on IRQ 11 would be, since
> there are no other add-in cards than video and RAID controller.

That IMHO isnt the problem

> Same thing happened on an EPoX mainboard, before I tried the controller
> with this hardware. No matter what IRQ Mylex gets, linux says there's
> another device using it. What would be that device? PS/2 mouse
> controller, perhaps? Why does it stick to Mylex?

Which compiler out of curiosity

2001-02-01 16:14:28

by Silviu Marin-Caea

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Subject: Re: 2.4.1 DAC960 driver bug or what's going on?

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:31:44 +0000 (GMT)
Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Which compiler out of curiosity

Works with kgcc. Thank you Alan.

I thought RedHat fixed their compiler.

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2001-02-01 16:34:20

by Alan

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Subject: Re: 2.4.1 DAC960 driver bug or what's going on?

> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:31:44 +0000 (GMT)
> Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Which compiler out of curiosity
> Works with kgcc. Thank you Alan.
>
> I thought RedHat fixed their compiler.

Im not yet sure if its the compiler or the DAC960 driver which is at fault
here. I'm looking at some 'interesting' reports about bitfield behaviour
which is why I suspected this

Alan