Re: partition detection failure between 2.4.19-pre2 and pre3

[Andre Hedrick]

But it did not alter the behavior between 2.4.19-pre2 and pre3.
Unless there was was a partial patch inclusion for dealing w/ fs/msdos as
a module and it did not make it totally there.

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Brad Roberts wrote:

> (not on the list, I read it via a list archive due to traffic, so please
> cc me on all replies)
> 
> Starting with 2.4.19-pre3 (and continuing for -pre4 and every post-pre2 ac
> kernel I've tried) bootup hangs during partition detection:
> 
> 2.4.19-pre2 output:
> 
> <snip>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 30
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:06.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:10.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:11.2
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:11.3
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:11.4
> PDC20265: chipset revision 2
> PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
>     ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
>     ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:11.1
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
> 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 vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:11.1
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: Maxtor 98196H8, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: 52X CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hde: Maxtor 4D060H3, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xd402 on irq 5
> hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9964/255/63, UDMA(100)
> hde: 120069936 sectors (61476 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=119117/16/63, UDMA(100)
> hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4
>  hde: hde1
> <snip>
> 
> 
> The pre-3 output stops right after:
> 
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4
>  hde:
> 
> 
> Ie, it never detects any partitions on hde.  The motherboard is an
> A7V266-E asus motherboard.
> 
> Suggestions?  I started looking through the changes between pre2 and pre3,
> but the ide subsystem got overhauled reasonably thoroughly in pre3.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad