Re: 2.4.20-rc1-ac4 HPT374 doesn't find connected ide drives

From: Christian Guggenberger (Christian.Guggenberger@physik.uni-regensburg.de)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 05:33:00 EST


On 19.11.2002 11:23 Karsten 'soohrt' Desler wrote:
> > I have the same board, and the controller works fine for me in 2.5.4*, as
> > 2.4-ac doesn't contain xfs suport. I only have one drive attached, but as I
>
> > remember I first had to configure the (raid) controller' BIOS (Ctrl-H at
> boot
> > time) (even for just a bunch of disks) before using the drives. But I'm not
>
> > 100%ly sure.
>
> I've "been in" the controller BIOS a few times, but never configured
> anything because I'm using the linux md driver.

Maybe U would try 2.5.48, just to see if it works then.
When I'm back home in about 7 hours, I'll check my bios settings, maybe this
could help you.
  
> > ANother QUestion: Did you ever get the onboard via-rhine NIC working with
> > IO-APIC (both BIOS and kernel) enabled?
>
> No I didn't.
> via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.14 May-3-2002 Written by Donald Becker
> http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
> eth1: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xcc00, 00:04:61:43:88:d9, IRQ 16.
> eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 05e1 Link 0000.
> eth1: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1.
> ...
> eth1: Transmit timed out, status 0003, PHY status 786d, resetting...
> eth1: reset did not complete in 10 ms.
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
>

thats just too bad, last I managed to get it working with IO-APICs for the
first time, but i simply was too tired to remember what things I did. I can't
reproduce it anymore:( this NIC's driving me crazy.

Christian

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