Re: Hang with Promise Ultra100 TX2 (kernel 2.4.18)

From: Pasi Kärkkäinen (pasik_at_iki.fi)
Date: 01/15/04

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To: Cheng Huang <cheng@cs.wustl.edu>

    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?

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