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 Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:37 am Post subject: Promise Ultra100 TX2 |
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Hi,
I've got a Promise Ultra100 TX2 with 2 hardrives plugged into it, one on each channel. When I install Gentoo, everything runs flawlessly; it boots, i can fdisk, compile, etc.
However, after building the kernel (I have tried all permutations of the combination of the Promise driver and the sub-options) and rebooting, the system refuses to address the drives correctly.
It finds the drives just fine, but after displaying a line like the following:
ide0: <hex addresses>
ide1: <hex>
ide2: <hex>
ide3: <hex>
It tries to check the disks, and does something like this:
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: timed out
which continues for quite a while, culminating the in failure of the system to boot. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:02 am Post subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 |
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| rain wrote: | | When I install Gentoo, everything runs flawlessly; it boots, i can fdisk, compile, etc. |
You mean from the install CD? If so, then the install CD kernel has something you are missing in the kernel you compiled.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:05 am Post subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 |
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | If so, then the install CD kernel has something you are missing in the kernel you compiled. |
On this note, I think it would be quite useful to sticky-post the .config files used for the various boot cd's along with what chop of the kernel they run somewhere around these forums. I'll see what I can do about finding this information later on.
-- Curious.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | You mean from the install CD? If so, then the install CD kernel has something you are missing in the kernel you compiled. |
That's exactly my thought as well, however, I can't figure out what it is that's misisng. |
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Are you trying to boot to a HD on this controller? I've read about Grub having problems with this. Not sure if anyone has found a solution yet.
If you're not trying to boot to it, I can check my config; I've got the same controller and it works fine.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 2:13 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Are you trying to boot to a HD on this controller? I've read about Grub having problems with this. Not sure if anyone has found a solution yet. |
Yes, I am, however, it's not just the drive being booted from that has the problem, the "lost interrupt" etc. occurs for both hde (the boot drive) and hdg (just a drive, not even in the grub boot line or in /etc/fstab) so I don't think it's an issue with grub. Grub manages to boot the kernel fine, but the kernel can't address the card correctly for some reason. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 2:34 am Post subject: |
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I'm pretty sure all I enabled to get my card working were these options:
| Code: | [*] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67|68|69|70} support
[*] Special UDMA Feature |
Do you have both of those enabled? As modules, or directly in the kernel?
If you have both those enabled, I can PM you my config file.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 2:58 am Post subject: |
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| kanuslupus wrote: | I'm pretty sure all I enabled to get my card working were these options:
| Code: | [*] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67|68|69|70} support
[*] Special UDMA Feature |
Do you have both of those enabled? As modules, or directly in the kernel?
If you have both those enabled, I can PM you my config file. |
Have tried enabling both, can try again easily. But it didn't work when I tried. By the way, they were compiled directly into the kernel, the only thing I do as a module is sound (cause that's the way ALSA seems to like it) |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 3:20 am Post subject: |
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PMd what I have enabled in my vanilla kernel .config file.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 12:33 am Post subject: |
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | PMd what I have enabled in my vanilla kernel .config file. |
Tried it, all the pertaining stuff (SCSI, ATA, etc) was the same as your kernel, but no dice. Any other ideas? |
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How about this post?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 4:28 am Post subject: |
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Well, I can certainly try it, but I'm not using RAID, I'll let you know, thanks. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 4:42 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, that probably isn't it. What kernel are you using? (uname -a) Something else to try might be disabling power management options in the kernel.
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