ide patch, 2.4.18, boot disk partition, hpt problems

[Norbert Preining]

Hi list, hi Andre!

I got the following problem with 2.4.18-preX and the current ide patch:
linux boots normal to the place where the partition table should be
shown, and there it hangs forever.

Here is the end of a kernel boot WITH the ide patch:
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 hdb11 hdb12 hdb13 >
 hde: hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 hde10 hde11 hde12 >
 hdf:
And here it hangs, nothing more.

I have the following config vars set concerning IDE:
[/usr/src/linux] grep _IDE .config
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_VENDOR is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_FUJITSU is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_IBM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_MAXTOR is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_QUANTUM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_SEAGATE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_WD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set
CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_WIP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_TIMEOUT is not set
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set

Here a dmesg of a boot from another kernel without ide-patches, but
with the hpt patches FROM the ide patch, so ot must be something
in another place of the ide patch:

Linux version 2.4.18pre2-packet (root@mandala) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #5 Wed Jan 9 09:32:03 CET 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000fff3000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 65520
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61424 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=341 BOOT_FILE=/boot/image hdd=ide-scsi video=vesa:ypan
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1400.087 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2791.83 BogoMIPS
Memory: 255640k/262080k available (1153k kernel code, 6056k reserved, 325k data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1400.0716 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 266.6803 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 2666803, slice: 1333401
CPU0<T0:2666800,T1:1333392,D:7,S:1333401,C:2666803>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([e-mail])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3f0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0
Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.15)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0a.0
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
HPT370A: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0e.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:09.0
HPT370A: chipset revision 4
HPT370A: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
HPT370: using 33MHz PCI clock
    ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
    ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe408-0xe40f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
hda: IBM-DTTA-350840, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 52049H4, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1402, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
hdf: IBM-DCAA-33610, ATA DISK drive
hdg: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xd400-0xd407,0xd802 on irq 11
ide3 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xe002 on irq 11
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/467KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: 40020624 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39703/16/63, UDMA(100)
hde: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(44)
hdf: 7056000 sectors (3613 MB) w/96KiB Cache, CHS=7000/16/63, DMA
hdg: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(44)
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 hdb11 hdb12 hdb13 >
 hde: hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 hde10 hde11 hde12 >
 hdf: hdf1 hdf2
...

Best wishes

Norbert

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