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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:00 pm    Post subject: PROMISE FastTrak TX4000/20376/20378/S150 TX Series driver Reply with quote

For those that don't know, Promise have released a soure driver for their FastTrak TX4000/20376/20378/S150 TX Series chipset here.

This should work on any mainboard with a built-in Promise 20376 / 20378 raid chip (such as Asus P4C800 series.)

You should be able boot using Knoppix, compile the driver, insert the modules, then you should be able to use your raid controller :)

When u install gentoo you will have to install the driver too, or you won't be able to boot! ;)

Not sure how well it works, but if it is on promise's site, it *should* be good :)

Let us know how you go, if anyone trys it.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:56 pm    Post subject: Re: PROMISE FastTrak TX4000/20376/20378/S150 TX Series drive Reply with quote

taskara wrote:
For those that don't know, Promise have released a soure driver for their FastTrak TX4000/20376/20378/S150 TX Series chipset here.

This should work on any mainboard with a built-in Promise 20376 / 20378 raid chip (such as Asus P4C800 series.)

You should be able boot using Knoppix, compile the driver, insert the modules, then you should be able to use your raid controller :)

When u install gentoo you will have to install the driver too, or you won't be able to boot! ;)

Not sure how well it works, but if it is on promise's site, it *should* be good :)

Let us know how you go, if anyone trys it.


they are not the full source ( just for now i hope), note the ftlib.o file on the tarball ... and they only works on 2.4.x kernels.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, but how to compile this sucker into the kernel? I've been trying, but I'll be honest, I'm quite the noob when it comes to compiling drivers from outside the already included driver list in the kernel.

How do I get the fasttrak source into the kernel so I can compile it???
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it has been a while, but firstly I'd say - read the readme

basically you extract the tarball, compile and install the driver which inserts the module into the kernel source.

then you can insert the module and scan for the array..
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

the readme from Promise was unclear to me. It was written for people who are completely familiar with compiling, so it leaves a bunch of very important info out. At least for me (who has never compiled a stand alone driver or program from outside of the kernel before.

I'm just looking for a step by step for this type of action.....ahhh I know, many of you can't be bothered with a noob like me, sorry 'bout botherin ya.... :P

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

to tell you the truth I've never compiled and used it..

btw there is a new version here

the readme seems pretty straight forward
Quote:
/***********************************************************************
* PROMISE FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series Linux Driver README *
* *
* PROMISE Linux support team <support@promise.com.tw> 2003/07/03 *
***********************************************************************/

How to make and load a Driver module (UP/SMP) for FastTrak

1.) Make sure you have linux kernel source code in /usr/src/linux,
and the gcc version is 3.x by issuing the command -
# gcc -v

2.) Set the Kernel Compiling Environment -
# cd /usr/src/linux/
# make config(or menuconfig/xconfig)
To set kernel config items as you wish as below,
Processor type and features/Processor family
Processor type and features/High Memory Support
Processor type and features/Symmetric multi-processing support
# make dep clean

3.) Go to the directory where PROMISE driver code is located and edit
Makefile.

4.) Choose the parameters in Makefile (default parameter is INDEP586)
ex: INDEP586 for most common case
DEP586 for most common case including module version
SuSE_TB for SuSE linux and Turbolinux,
MDK for Mandrake linux

5.) Issue Linux command to make a FastTrak(UP/SMP) driver: ft3xx.o

#make clean all

6.) Be sure to load scsi_mod.o before "insmod ft3xx.o".

7.) Copy this module to /lib/modules/2.4.x/kernel/drivers/scsi/

8.) Issue "cat /proc/scsi/ft3xx/x" (x is a SCSI host number) to get the
RAID array status.


1) - you already have GCC (obviously) so you can skip this step

2) - you should be able to skip this - because when you built your kernel you should have already put these things in

3) - pretty straight forward
Code:
 nano -w /path/to/code/Makefile


4) - familiarise yourself with it - but you won't need to change anything because the readme says
Quote:
(default parameter is INDEP586)
- which is what we want because we are not building for SUSE or Redhat or Mandrake, so exit nano.

5) - do what it says
Code:
make clean all

that will build the driver for you.

6) - do what it says - load scsi_mod.o first (which is "SCSI Support" under the kernel)
Code:
insmod scsi_mod
of course this means you must have compiled it into your kernel - if you compiled it in as a module the above should work. If you compiled it in directly you won't need to insert any modules (because there aren't any ;))

then
Code:
insmod ft3xx.o


7) - copy ft3xx.o to /lib/modules/2.4.x/kernel/drivers/scsi/ - where 2.4.x is the actual kernel version (for me is /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/scsi/ - but just use your TAB key to get the the right place).

Code:
cp ft3xx.o /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/scsi/


8 ) - once again do what it says - to get the RAID array status, run
Code:
cat /proc/scsi/ft3xx/x
Similarly to the kernel number, x is a SCSI host number (try using TAB again).

9) - it should have been successful, but if not then take note of which section failed. remember it only works with 2.4 kernels (and I would say probably only vanilla kernels), and only works with certain promise cards - not neccessarily all.

because we are using gentoo, add scsi_mod and ft3xx to modules.autoload
Code:
echo scsi_mod >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4
echo ft3xx >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4


if it worked above, then when you reboot it will load the proper modules and your raid array should be visible again.

but like I said - I don't have a promise card to try it on anymore.. so I'm just going off the readme.. good luck!
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fwiw, mine (376) works no problem with the kernel driver in 2.6... no need to use the driver from the Promise site. Might want to see if what you're using is supported by that new driver...
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

handsomepete wrote:
fwiw, mine (376) works no problem with the kernel driver in 2.6... no need to use the driver from the Promise site. Might want to see if what you're using is supported by that new driver...


this driver is for the raid function of a promise controller.

Your 2.6 kernel will support the card, definately - but I don't think it will support the raid function of the card.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i recently installed gentoo w/ the 2.6 kernel on my new comp and i'm having trouble seeing a harddrive connected to the promise controller on my motherboard. It's the asus k8v motherboard, and it has the 20378 raid controller. In the bios I have the raid function disabled and I'm running it as a normal IDE/SATA controller. Ideas??
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

did you compile support for the promise controller in your 2.6 kernel? and NOT as a module?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, I compiled in both Promise ATA drivers that showed up in the 2.6 kernel
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh, lol.. did you look at /dev/sda ?

and can u post dmesg?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

here's dmesg, and /dev/sda doesn't seem to exist. I'm fresh out of ideas :-/




morrowr root # dmesg
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hdb5)
Linux version 2.6.0-sneakys (root@morrowr) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r2, propolice)) #8 SMP Thu Jan 1 19:00:11 EST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff30000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff30000 - 000000001ff40000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff40000 - 000000001fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 000000001ff30000
Using node hash shift of 24
Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000001ff30000
found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00100000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000e0000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000e1000 reserved twice.
setting up node 0 0-1ff30
On node 0 totalpages: 130864
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126768 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: ASUSTeK <6>Product ID: K8V000000000 <6>APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 16
I/O APIC #2 Version 3 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 1
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ d0000000 size 64 MB
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb5 console=tty0
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 16 (order 4: 256 bytes)
time.c: Using 1.193182 MHz PIT timer.
time.c: Detected 2010.143 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 507392k/523456k available (2958k kernel code, 0k reserved, 1058k data, 176k init)
Calibrating delay loop... 3940.35 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping 08
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 512.02 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
watchdog: setting K7_PERFCTR0 to ffe15470
Only one processor found.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Using IO-APIC 2
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-19, 2-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
number of MP IRQ sources: 25.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................

IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
.... register #01: 00178003
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0003
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
14 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
15 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
16 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ16 -> 0:16
IRQ17 -> 0:17
IRQ18 -> 0:18
IRQ20 -> 0:20
IRQ21 -> 0:21
IRQ22 -> 0:22
.................................... done.
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Detected 12.563 MHz APIC timer.
time.c: Using PIT/TSC based timekeeping.
Starting migration thread for cpu 0
CPUS done 8
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
SCSI subsystem initialized
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3227] at 0000:00:11.0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P0) -> 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I8,P0) -> 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I10,P0) -> 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I15,P1) -> 20
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I15,P0) -> 20
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P0) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P0) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P1) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P1) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P2) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I17,P2) -> 22
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16
agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
powernow-k8: version 1.00.08 - September 26, 2003
powernow-k8: Found AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processor supporting p-state transitions
powernow-k8: BIOS error: PSB table is not v1.4
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config*
devfs: v1.22 (20021013) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
NTFS driver 2.1.5 [Flags: R/W DEBUG].
udf: registering filesystem
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.0, from 11 to 5
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 11 to 5
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 10 to 5
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.3, from 10 to 5
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Hangcheck: starting hangcheck timer 0.5.0 (tick is 180 seconds, margin is 60 seconds).
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
sk98lin: Network Device Driver v6.18
(C)Copyright 1999-2003 Marvell(R).
eth%d: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)
PrefPort:A RlmtMode:Check Link State
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: 48X12, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 < p5 > p2 p3
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 234375000 sectors (120000 MB)
native capacity is 234375120 sectors (120000 MB)
hdb: 234375000 sectors (120000 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 >
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Fusion MPT base driver 2.05.00.03
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 LSI Logic Corporation
mptbase: 0 MPT adapters found, 0 installed.
Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 2.05.00.03
ohci1394: $Rev$ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[16] MMIO=[cfa00000-cfa007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 21, pci mem ffffff0000031000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jun-13
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2003 Oct 13 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 80 td 96
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.1uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 21, io base 000000000000b400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 21, io base 000000000000b800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 21, io base 000000000000c000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e0180000346cca]
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 21, io base 000000000000c400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver audio
drivers/usb/class/audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver tiglusb
drivers/usb/misc/tiglusb.c: TI-GRAPH LINK USB (aka SilverLink) driver, version 1.06
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
Adding 996020k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hdb5, internal journal
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4499 Wed Sep 17 17:03:05 PDT 2003
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2044 buckets, 16352 max) - 448 bytes per conntrack
eth0: network connection up using port A
speed: 100
autonegotiation: yes
duplex mode: full
flowctrl: symmetric
irq moderation: disabled
scatter-gather: enabled
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm...

u mounted /boot before you copied over your new bzImage?

does the kernel promise driver actually support your 20378?

what does
Code:
cat /proc/pci |grep promise
reveal?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes I mounted my boot partition before copying over the new BzImage
To be honest in the 2.6.0 kernel the Promise support is all for PDC202xx and I don't think this will work with my onboard 203 controller.

morrowr root # cat /proc/pci |grep promise
cat: /proc/pci: No such file or directory
morrowr root #


Why would I check the /proc/pci area if it is on my motherboard?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ahh well there you are

kernel supports 202xx and you have 203xx.. so it won't work

and yes, /proc/pci, because even though it may be a "chip on the mainboard" it is still accessed through the pci bus.

ie: here is my onboard network "chip"

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server root # cat /proc/pci |grep 3Com
    Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 120).

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hang on.. sata promise should be under scsi in 2.6 kernel, NOT ata.

scsi low-level drivers
sata
promise sata support
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok here we go, this is all halfway confusing to me because the actual controller is a SATA and IDE raid controller but in bios it can be enabled as a simple ide/sata controller. I found the scsi drivers for promise where you stated and enabled them and recompiled, I just booted and still cannot seem to find the harddrive connected to the 3rd IDE port on the motherboard.

Here's an updated dmesg, it seems that it has now recognized the existence of the extra SATA and IDE ports on the mobo.


morrowr root # dmesg
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hdb5)
Linux version 2.6.0-sneakys (root@morrowr) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r2, propolice)) #9 SMP Sat Jan 3 23:09:27 EST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff30000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff30000 - 000000001ff40000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff40000 - 000000001fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 000000001ff30000
Using node hash shift of 24
Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000001ff30000
found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00100000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000e0000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000e1000 reserved twice.
setting up node 0 0-1ff30
On node 0 totalpages: 130864
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126768 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: ASUSTeK <6>Product ID: K8V000000000 <6>APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 16
I/O APIC #2 Version 3 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 1
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ d0000000 size 64 MB
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb5 console=tty0
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 16 (order 4: 256 bytes)
time.c: Using 1.193182 MHz PIT timer.
time.c: Detected 2010.143 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 507352k/523456k available (2988k kernel code, 0k reserved, 1067k data, 176k init)
Calibrating delay loop... 3940.35 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping 08
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 512.02 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
watchdog: setting K7_PERFCTR0 to ffe15470
Only one processor found.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Using IO-APIC 2
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-19, 2-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
number of MP IRQ sources: 25.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................

IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
.... register #01: 00178003
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0003
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
14 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
15 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
16 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ16 -> 0:16
IRQ17 -> 0:17
IRQ18 -> 0:18
IRQ20 -> 0:20
IRQ21 -> 0:21
IRQ22 -> 0:22
.................................... done.
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Detected 12.563 MHz APIC timer.
time.c: Using PIT/TSC based timekeeping.
Starting migration thread for cpu 0
CPUS done 8
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
SCSI subsystem initialized
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3227] at 0000:00:11.0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P0) -> 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I8,P0) -> 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I10,P0) -> 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I15,P1) -> 20
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I15,P0) -> 20
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P0) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P0) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P1) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P1) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I16,P2) -> 21
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I17,P2) -> 22
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16
agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
powernow-k8: version 1.00.08 - September 26, 2003
powernow-k8: Found AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processor supporting p-state transitions
powernow-k8: BIOS error: PSB table is not v1.4
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config*
devfs: v1.22 (20021013) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
NTFS driver 2.1.5 [Flags: R/W DEBUG].
udf: registering filesystem
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.0, from 11 to 5
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 11 to 5
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 10 to 5
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.3, from 10 to 5
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Hangcheck: starting hangcheck timer 0.5.0 (tick is 180 seconds, margin is 60 seconds).
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
sk98lin: Network Device Driver v6.18
(C)Copyright 1999-2003 Marvell(R).
eth%d: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)
PrefPort:A RlmtMode:Check Link State
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: 48X12, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 < p5 > p2 p3
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 234375000 sectors (120000 MB)
native capacity is 234375120 sectors (120000 MB)
hdb: 234375000 sectors (120000 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 >
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
libata version 0.81 loaded.
sata_promise version 0.87
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFFF000002F200 ctl 0xFFFFFF000002F238 bmdma 0x0 irq 18
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFFF000002F280 ctl 0xFFFFFF000002F2B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 18
ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
ata1: thread exiting
scsi0 : sata_promise
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
ata2: thread exiting
scsi1 : sata_promise
Fusion MPT base driver 2.05.00.03
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 LSI Logic Corporation
mptbase: 0 MPT adapters found, 0 installed.
Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 2.05.00.03
ohci1394: $Rev$ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[16] MMIO=[cfa00000-cfa007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 21, pci mem ffffff0000033000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jun-13
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2003 Oct 13 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 80 td 96
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.1uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 21, io base 000000000000b400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 21, io base 000000000000b800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 21, io base 000000000000c000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e0180000346cca]
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 21, io base 000000000000c400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver audio
drivers/usb/class/audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver tiglusb
drivers/usb/misc/tiglusb.c: TI-GRAPH LINK USB (aka SilverLink) driver, version 1.06
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
Adding 996020k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hdb5, internal journal
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4499 Wed Sep 17 17:03:05 PDT 2003
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2044 buckets, 16352 max) - 448 bytes per conntrack
eth0: network connection up using port A
speed: 100
autonegotiation: yes
duplex mode: full
flowctrl: symmetric
irq moderation: disabled
scatter-gather: enabled
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Device is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode[/quote]
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm... looks like it can't see any hdd's connected to it.

the hdd is definately detected by the promise bios when you boot up?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, it is seen by the motherboad detection when i boot and also in Windows XP (dualboot). I had to install a special driver in Windows, but I can definitely read the drive perfectly well.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm.. then all I can say is that I guess the 2.6 driver does not fully support the 20378 yet.

and unfortunately the promise driver (that this thread is about) only works in 2.4 and is only for fasttrak...

perhaps try posting in a new thread, see if anyone else has been able to get it to work..

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks anyway man
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:38 pm    Post subject: 2.6 kernel driver doesn't work for my sata disk Reply with quote

Does no-one have problems using the 2.6 kernel driver for the promise 376 sata (non raid) function?

My onboard promise 376 (chaintech nf2) sometimes works, but usually doesn't. It always dedects my sata disk nicely upon loading the kernel, but whenever I try to fdisk or mount the drive, the system *totaly* locks up. Hard reboot is the only solution. Maybe other people don't get this error because they are using non-native SATA disks (every sata drive exept seagate 7200.7 and maybe raptor 10k)? The Seagate 7200.7 is a native sata disk, which means it supports command tag queing and other nifty sata features, while other sata drives (like maxtor, samsung, hitachi, ...) are basicly a pata drive with a sata interface. Maybe the kernel driver locks up because a bad implementation of those extended sata features?

The odd part is sometimes does work, but very rarely. I hope a future update will fix this, because in the meanwhile I've got two useless SATA disks and I don't want to go back to wndows.

Does anyone know when Promise will release a driver that can compile against the 2.6 kernel?

Those who have the promise 376 working and use it as a boot disk, were you able to use grub? Grub doesn't dedect the scsi disks, but lilo does.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 6:31 pm    Post subject: Yep, me! Reply with quote

I'm experiencing total system freeze as well, but my system does manage to mount the disk, and manages to stay up for a random amount of time, typically a few hours or less. It seems like the hang occurs only during heavy disk activity (I'm doing lots of emerges), otherwise it stays up. The machine got through a gentoo-2004.0 install (without X) in a couple of tries.

I'm running an md (linux software raid) volume across two identical partitions on two SATA drives (10k raptors), under kernel gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1, on an MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR motherboard (nForce2 chipset, Promise 20376). No sound driver is compiled into the kernel, and no funky graphics card driver (not running X yet), so those potential culprits are out and I'm suspecting the sata_promise driver ... but am still trying to diagnose this.

Hardware failure seems unlikely; I've installed Win XP on another partition on one of the two SATA disks, and jostled it around a bit, without getting a hang.

Don't know anything about Promise's software releases -- I'm more interested in (and optimistic about) the fully-open-source driver getting stable (assuming the problem is there), and I'm sure those with amd64 and other architectures will agree :)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:34 pm    Post subject: Bug for this issue on bugzilla.kernel.org Reply with quote

Seems like somebody already filed this in the kernel bug database:
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1888
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