(Tried sending this to you at "marcelo@plucky.distro.conectiva" but it kept
getting returned to me with host unknown.)
I am sending this message to you as you are working on the 2.4.19/2.4.20
maintenance release - I am having problems with this release.
I am successfully using 2.4.18, but am having problems with 2.4.19 and the
Promise FastTrak100 Raid controller.
See my attached message.
Alan
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Miles [mailto:alanmiles@hfx.eastlink.ca]
Sent: August 5, 2002 19:19
To: Ataraid-List
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com
Subject: Problems with 2.4.19 Kernel and Promise Fastrak100 RAID
Controller (2.4.18 works)
All,
I am not sure if there is something wrong with the ataraid in 2.4.19 (I am
successfully using the ataraid/fastrak in the 2.4.18 kernel - custom
compiled).
I have been using ataraid since the -ac days (before it was in the standard
kernel). In fact I did some testing for Arjan when he sent me a .c file to
test (in the -ac days).
This is rather lengthy but ...
To convert my 2.4.18 config file to 2.4.19 I did:
Put the 2.4.18 config in /usr/src
(from source dir: /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/)
make mrproper
make xconfig
(loaded the config file from /usr/src/)
then saved and exited - then:
make dep
copied the /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/.config to /usr/src/config.new
then:
make mrproper
cp ../config.new .config
make oldconfig
I used the same procedure when I build the 2.4.18 (2.4.17 "original" config
to build the 2.4.18 config) and 2.4.19 kernels.
My hardware configuration is as follows:
- the two similar drives (hdg/hdh) (IBM-DTLA-307060) connected to the
Fasttrak100 Promise RAID controller
- the remaining drive (hdi) (IC35L060AVER07-0) connected to the motherboard
With 2.4.18 (note: This WORKS) , and using dmesg upon boot I get:
...
hdg: IBM-DTLA-307060, ATA DISK drive
hdh: IBM-DTLA-307060, ATA DISK drive
hdi: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
...
hdg: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hdh: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hdi: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63,
UDMA(100)
...
Partition check:
hdg:<7>LDM: DEBUG (ldm.c, 962): validate_partition_table: No MS-DOS
partition found.
unknown partition table
hdh: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] hdh1 < >
hdi: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] hdi1 hdi2 hdi3 hdi4 < hdi5 hdi6 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 < ataraid/d0p5 ataraid/d0p6 >
Drive 0 is 58644 Mb (34 / 64)
Drive 1 is 58644 Mb (34 / 0)
Raid0 array consists of 2 drives.
ataraid/d1: ataraid/d1p1 ataraid/d1p2 ataraid/d1p3 ataraid/d1p4 <
ataraid/d1p5 ataraid/d1p6 >
Drive 0 is 58644 Mb (56 / 0)
Raid0 array consists of 1 drives.
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.03beta
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01
No raid array found
....
the cat /proc/partitions looks like:
major minor #blocks name
114 0 120103137 ataraid/d0
114 1 1 ataraid/d0p1
114 5 35849016 ataraid/d0p5
114 6 84244828 ataraid/d0p6
114 16 60051568 ataraid/d1
114 17 7389868 ataraid/d1p1
114 18 40162 ataraid/d1p2
114 19 40162 ataraid/d1p3
114 20 1 ataraid/d1p4
114 21 1413688 ataraid/d1p5
114 22 51166993 ataraid/d1p6
56 0 60051600 hdi
56 1 7389868 hdi1
56 2 40162 hdi2
56 3 40162 hdi3
56 4 1 hdi4
56 5 1413688 hdi5
56 6 51166993 hdi6
34 0 60051600 hdg
34 64 60051600 hdh
34 65 1 hdh1
Note: /dev/ataraid/d1* <===> /dev/hdi*
However, with the 2.4.19 kernel (which does NOT work) I get:
...
PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 68
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:04.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:09.0
PDC20267: chipset revision 2
ide: Skipping Promise RAID controller.
PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 88
...
hde: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
...
hde: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63,
UDMA(100)
...
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 690M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 ataraid/d0p2 ataraid/d0p3 ataraid/d0p4 <
ataraid/d0p5 ataraid/d0p6 >
Drive 0 is 58644 Mb (33 / 0)
Raid0 array consists of 1 drives.
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.03beta
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01
No raid array found
...
and the cat /proc/partitions looks like:
major minor #blocks name
114 0 60051568 ataraid/d0
114 1 7389868 ataraid/d0p1
114 2 40162 ataraid/d0p2
114 3 40162 ataraid/d0p3
114 4 1 ataraid/d0p4
114 5 1413688 ataraid/d0p5
114 6 51166993 ataraid/d0p6
33 0 60051600 hde
33 1 7389868 hde1
33 2 40162 hde2
33 3 40162 hde3
33 4 1 hde4
33 5 1413688 hde5
33 6 51166993 hde6
I have lost the two (IBM-DTLA-307060) drives and have /dev/ataraid/do* <===>
/dev/hde*
therefore cannot do anything.
In the 2.4.19 config file:
...
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y
CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST=y
CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y
...
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT=y
Reviewing the 2.4.19 changelogs I see:
...
<marcelo@plucky.distro.conectiva> (02/07/26 1.654)
Make FastTrak be disabled by default
...
<marcelo@plucky.distro.conectiva> (02/07/19 1.646)
Fix wrong #ifdef in ide-pci.c: Was causing problems with FastTrak
...
<marcelo@plucky.distro.conectiva> (02/03/22 1.220.1.24)
Add Promise 20276 to supported IDE controllers
...
<arjanv@redhat.com> (02/04/15 1.383.2.29)
[PATCH] Add missing ataraid entries
Could any of these changes broken something? I would really like to use
2.4.19 but am limited to 2.4.18 (which works!).
Thanks,
Alan
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