Re: Promise SuperTrak SX6000 w/ kernel 2.4.20

Juergen \ (george@mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de)
16 Jan 2003 12:23:41 +0100


It shouldn't find /dev/hde ... /dev/hdj (there's some problem with the
detection mechanism), as these are I2O devices, and thus it's
/dev/i2o/hd?. You have to stop the discovery process by adding

hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe hdi=noprobe hdj=noprobe

to the lilo append variable.

BTW, I'm using 2.4.20-pre10-ac1 and it runs rock solid (despite some
1-10s stalls that seem to be controller related).

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:27, Sebastian Zimmermann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are using a Promise SuperTrak RAID controller together with the
> integrated i2o-drivers in the linux kernel 2.4.18. Everything works fine
> so far.
>
> Now we wanted to upgrade to kernel 2.4.20. Configuration was unchanged.
> But now the system hangs at boot time:
>
> When the IDE driver is loaded, it finds the system disk /dev/hda just
> like before. But with 2.4.20 the IDE driver also finds disks /dev/hde,
> /dev/hdf and so on which belong to the raid system. At this point many
> "interrupt lost" messages appear on the screen and the system hangs. It
> never gets far enough to load i2o.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sebastian
>
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