Re: 2.4.19-pre4-ac[23] do not boot

[Andre Hedrick]

I just dusted off the my BP6 with original BIOS's and it hangs too :-/
So off to rebuild the driver froms scratch ...

For now if you need it to go copy over the old on from 2.4.18, but then a
bunch of hosts 370/370A/372/374 break but the can be added back in..

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Art Wagner wrote:

> Hi;
> I seem to have the identical problem with system hangs on boot. The 
> problem I see occurs on a Abit BP6
> on the first access of the first drive on the HPT-366 interface. The 
> problem occurs on all -ac-x revisions
> 1 through 3.  The attached log is from an boot on 2.4.19-pre4 which did 
> not hang but the log is identical
> except for the fact that the hang occurs with only the "hde:" portion of 
> the last line displayed.
> If I can provide any further information pleas let me know via the list 
> or direct email.
> Art Wagner
> 
> Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> >>>This is possible, however one of the problems encountered is the
> >>>following under several chipsets.  If there is no pio timing set at all,
> >>>then we can run into host lock issues if the driver drops out of dma.
> >>>Thus, if it is going to lockup here it would/could lock up in other
> >>>places when one trys to program the host for PIO.
> >>>
> >>Well right at the moment the ALi locks up on boot reliably. That means a
> >>fix has to be found, or the ALi changes reverted 
> >>
> >
> >Pull out the GOOF-UP of mine :-/
> >
> >autotune is enabled and does the same thing, Gurrr....
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Andre Hedrick
> >LAD Storage Consulting Group
> >
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Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group