Well add these to the quirk list in the pdc202xx.c
There are known issues with several versions of the FIRMWARE of the
"QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM***" series.
Cheers,
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Adrian Chung wrote:
> I've been searching and watching lists for a while trying to figure
> out whether this problem had been solved or not, and haven't found
> anything suitable...
>
> I'm experiencing two problems with a Promise UDMA66 controller
> (PDC20262) on hardware I'll list below. The first problem is that
> on bootup I get:
>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
> PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> PIIX4: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 60
> PDC20262: chipset revision 1
> PDC20262: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI
> Mode.
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0x9800-0x9807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0x9808-0x980f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hde: Maxtor 91024U3, ATA DISK drive
> hdf: Maxtor 94098U8, ATA DISK drive
> hdg: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM15, ATA DISK drive
> hdh: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30, ATA DISK drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2 at 0xb000-0xb007,0xa802 on irq 11
> ide3 at 0xa400-0xa407,0xa002 on irq 11
>
> Then a hang. Mentioned a while back, this patch fixes the problem,
> and allows the machine to boot properly.
>
> --- /usr/src/linux-2.2.18-idepatch/drivers/block/ide-features.c Mon
> Jan 1 18:03:42 2001
> +++ ide-features.c Mon Jan 1 18:30:37 2001
> @@ -297,8 +297,10 @@
> SELECT_DRIVE(HWIF(drive), drive);
> SELECT_MASK(HWIF(drive), drive, 0);
> udelay(1);
> + /*
> if (IDE_CONTROL_REG)
> OUT_BYTE(drive->ctl | 2, IDE_CONTROL_REG);
> + */
> OUT_BYTE(speed, IDE_NSECTOR_REG);
> OUT_BYTE(SETFEATURES_XFER, IDE_FEATURE_REG);
> OUT_BYTE(WIN_SETFEATURES, IDE_COMMAND_REG);
>
> I then found that I randomly get "Timeout waiting for DMA" messages
> prior to a complete system hang.
>
> I tried forcing all of the drives into UDMA mode 2 (hdparm -X66) and
> this seemed to make the problem a bit better, but I still experience
> system hangs. I can't seem to make the problem happen, it only
> happens randomly. The past two times, an rsync has made the system crash.
>
> I'm using kernel 2.2.18 (tried 2.4 final briefly today to see if it
> would boot, it hung on bootup as well), with the latest
> ide.2.2.18.1221.patch from Andre's directory.
>
> The system in question is:
>
> Celeron 533 - 384 MB RAM - Asus P2B-F
> 4 IDE Drives listed above:
> hde: Maxtor 91024U3, ATA DISK drive
> hdf: Maxtor 94098U8, ATA DISK drive
> hdg: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM15, ATA DISK drive
> hdh: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30, ATA DISK drive
> 1 IDE CDROM:
> hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Promise Ultra66 Controller, BIOS 2.0b18
> 2 D-Link DFE-538 (RTL8139) adapters
>
> Any help, or any way I could help would be appreciated. Eager to try
> and get this resolved, as I've seen it crop up a number of times, and
> it's also a pain to have to physically hit the reset button as the
> machine is off-site.
>
> --
> Adrian
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