RE: Hang with Promise Ultra100 TX2 (kernel 2.4.18)

[Cheng Huang]

Thanks for replying. Can you explain a little bit where to get the driver for latest versions? Thanks.

-- Cheng

-----Original Message-----
From: Pasi Kékkénen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:49 AM
To: Cheng Huang
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Hang with Promise Ultra100 TX2 (kernel 2.4.18)

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:17:12AM -0600, Cheng Huang wrote:
> I have to use kernel 2.4.18 because I need to install KURT (realtime
> linux) with it. However, my system hangs on boot with the following
> message:
> 
> PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PDC20268: ROM enabled at 0xff900000
>     ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfcc0-0xfcc7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
>     ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfcc8-0xfccf, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> 
> I have tried tricks I could find in through google, like setting boot
> parameters "hde=4866,255,63 hde=noprobe hdg=24321,255,163 hdg=noprobe".
> But it didn't work.
> 
> Could anybody provide some clue about how to fix this problem? Thanks
> very much.
> 

I think there has been a lot of bug fixes in the latest 2.4 kernels for
promise cards.

I'm running promise ultra133-tx2 successfully with 2.4.22 kernel.

Merge the promise driver from later 2.4.x kernels to 2.4.18 and recompile? 

-- Pasi KÃrkkÃinen
       
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