I have a promise Lite controller running in Raid1 mode using reiserfs
booting with lilo and it seems to work really well
Raid1 support was added in in 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 gives quite a few errors
with the fs, but the 2.4.12-ac2 works fine
Where did it get up to with you????
PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 80
PDC20265: chipset revision 2
ide: Found promise 20265 in RAID mode.
PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20265: ROM enabled at 0xdffd0000
PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER
Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hdd: ATAPI CDROM 48X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
hdg: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xd802 on irq 10
ide3 at 0xd400-0xd407,0xd002 on irq 10
hde: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdg: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(100)
....
ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 ataraid/d0p2
Drive 0 is 39266 Mb (33 / 0)
Drive 1 is 39266 Mb (34 / 0)
Raid1 array consists of 2 drives.
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.03beta
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-- Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ataraid/d0p2 39936364 38069196 1867168 96% / ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ataraid/d0p1 1 33 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/ataraid/d0p2 34 5005 39937590 83 Linux native ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- boot=/dev/ataraid/d0 root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2 disk=/dev/ataraid/d0 bios=0x80 lba32 install=/boot/boot-menu.b ignore-table timeout=300 prompt map=/boot/map image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only -----------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks Craig Whitmore Orcon Internet http://www.orcon.net.nz
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Garand" <krogoth2@softhome.net> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 2:18 PM Subject: Promise FastTrak boot freeze on 2.4.12/+ac3
> I'm using a Promise FastTrak 66 controller with a custom slackware 8 > bootdisk, and every time I try to boot it freezes after detecting hde, hdg, > ide10 ide2, and ide3 (I have one drive on each port on the controller in > RAID0 and a CD on the main IDE bus). I tried with kernel 2.4.12 and > 2.4.12-ac3, enabling both Promise FastTrak options (one for the controller, > one for IDE RAID) and software RAID. I've done searches on google and their > newsgroup archives and haven't found anything describing a solution to this > problem. > > I will do my best to provide any additional information that could help if > this is a new problem, but it can be a bit slow since I can only transfer it > by swapping the video cable and using BioLink (TM of RealLife, INC). > -- > Richard Garand > krogoth2@softhome.net, r.garand@sk.sympatico.ca > (L)ICQ: 12190132 > Then: I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too > small to contain. > Now: Microsoft has released an unremarkable product which your hard drive is > too small to contain. > - > 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/ >
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