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.
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