Re: 2.5.68 IDE Oops at boot [working now]

[Eric Northup]

On Sunday 20 April 2003 02:35 pm, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Eric Northup wrote:
> >init_irq called for hwif ide0.
> >hdc: MAXTOR 6L080L4, ATA DISK drive
>
> init_irq called, but does nothing.
>
> >init_irq called for hwif ide2.
> >blk_init_queue: c04c99d4 initialized.
>
> This is what's supposed to happen: init_irq initialized the queues.
>
> Two bugs:
> - why doesn't init_irq initialize the queues for the siimage controller?
> I found a difference between 2.5.67 and 68: init_irq always returns 0,
> even on error. It should return 1 on error. (It wasn't difficult to
> find, I introduced it :-(
> - The error handling is bad. Probably drive->present should be forced to
> 0, if the queues could not be initialized.
>
> Could you try the attached patch? It fixes the return code and adds some
> additional printks.
>
> --
>     Manfred

This fixes it, thank you very much!  I am currently running 2.5.68 with your 
IDE patch.  One annoyance is that the order of IDE channels is different 
between 2.4.20 and 2.5.68 - the Silicon Image SATA controller is detected 
first on 2.5 but not on 2.4.  I've just put a simple script to swap 
/etc/fstab at boot based on the running kernel, but the device swap is not 
very user-friendly.  Other than that, I've got no complaints - the system is 
running quite well!

--Eric Northup