Samuel Flory wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you have "Special FastTrak Feature" enabled?
>>
>>
>
> Can we change the option to something that makes sense. I get the
> feeling no one understands what it does at 1st glance. This is the
> 2nd time I've seen a patch like this.
I tried the kernel with fasttrack enabled because I saw something about
forcing the bios, but either it doesn't work or it doesn't work with my
adaptor. The patch does work, though.
But I definately agree, special fasttrack feature should atleast have
some useful help information for how it is used (if anyone knows?)
-steve
>
>> --
>> Bartlomiej
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Steven Dake wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> After I upgraded to 2.4.21, I noticed my Gigabyte motherboard with
>>> onboard IDE Promise 20276 FastTrack RAID no longer works. The
>>> following
>>> patch fixes the problem, which appears to be an incomplete list of
>>> devices in the ide setup code. There are probably other fasttrack RAID
>>> adaptors that should be added to the setup code, but I don't know what
>>> they are.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -steve
>>>
>>
>>
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>
>diff -ur linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/Documentation/Configure.help linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/Documentation/Configure.help
>--- linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/Documentation/Configure.help 2003-07-07 04:23:56.000000000 -0700
>+++ linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/Documentation/Configure.help 2003-07-10 05:53:27.000000000 -0700
>@@ -1297,9 +1297,12 @@
>
> If unsure, say N.
>
>-Special FastTrak Feature
>+Ignore FastTrak Bios and configure drives as IDE disks
> CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE
>- For FastTrak enable overriding BIOS.
>+ Enable overriding BIOS RAID configuration. Without this option the
>+ kernel may refuse to see your drives. Do not enable if you are
>+ using Promise's binary module. This option is compatible with the
>+ GPL ataraid driver.
>
> SiS5513 chipset support
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513
>diff -ur linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/drivers/ide/Config.in linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/drivers/ide/Config.in
>--- linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/drivers/ide/Config.in 2003-07-07 04:18:53.000000000 -0700
>+++ linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/drivers/ide/Config.in 2003-07-10 05:51:22.000000000 -0700
>@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
> dep_mbool ' Special UDMA Feature' CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI
> dep_tristate ' PROMISE PDC202{68|69|70|71|75|76|77} support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI
> if [ "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD" = "m" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW" = "m" ]; then
>- bool ' Special FastTrak Feature' CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE
>+ bool ' Ignore FastTrak Bios and configure drives as IDE disks' CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE
> fi
> dep_tristate ' RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 $CONFIG_X86
> dep_tristate ' SCx200 chipset support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200 $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI
>
>
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