Re: Hang with Promise Ultra100 TX2 (kernel 2.4.18)

From: Pasi Kärkkäinen (pasik_at_iki.fi)
Date: 01/17/04

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

    On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:02:44PM -0600, Cheng Huang wrote:
    > Thanks for replying. Can you explain a little bit where to get the driver for latest versions? Thanks.
    >

    Copy the promise driver from 2.4.24 kernel to 2.4.18 kernel, and hope it
    works :)

    - Pasi Kärkkäinen

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Pasi K???kk???nen [mailto:pasik@iki.fi]
    > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:49 AM
    > To: Cheng Huang
    > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; cheng@cse.wustl.edu
    > 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 Kärkkäinen
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