If this is a 2.5 kernel you are on your own. :-/
Otherwise your kernel is config'd wrong.
Below is my version of RedHat 7.2 kernel.
Linux version 2.4.7-10enterprise (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc
version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 SMP Sun Mar 10
00:08:18 PST 2002
Linux autobuild.linux-ide.org 2.4.7-10enterprise #1 SMP Sun Mar 10 00:08:18 PST 2002 i686 unknown
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 18
PDC20267: chipset revision 2
PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20267: ROM enabled at 0xfeae0000
PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode.
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdf00-0xdf07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdf08-0xdf0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
ServerWorks OSB4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 79
ServerWorks OSB4: chipset revision 0
ServerWorks OSB4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
hda: IBM-DPTA-373420, ATA DISK drive
hdc: IBM-DPTA-373420, ATA DISK drive
hdg: CW038D ATAPI CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0xdfe0-0xdfe7,0xdfae on irq 31
ide1 at 0xdfa0-0xdfa7,0xdfaa on irq 31
ide3 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 66835440 sectors (34220 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=66305/16/63, UDMA(66)
hdc: 66835440 sectors (34220 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=66305/16/63, UDMA(66)
ide-floppy driver 0.98a
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [4160/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
hdc: [PTBL] [4160/255/63] hdc1
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Darren Nickerson wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002,"Murty" == Murty Rompalli wrote:
>
> Murty> First, you dont have all the features enabled in kernel; if you are
> trying
> Murty> to boot off of the raid disks, it may not work with modules. Build
> them
> Murty> statically.
>
> I'm not trying to boot off raid. I just have it for achiving/backup (for now).
>
> Murty> Promise proprietary driver (aka fake scsi driver) knows how to deal
> with
> Murty> "neither port enabled in BIOS"
>
> Oh, understood. In fact, their instructions even force you to disable ide2 and
> ide3, looking at it now.
>
> Murty> Otherwise, you have to specify what ide2 and ide3 are , at boot time.
> For
> Murty> example
>
> Murty> boot linux ide2=0xd000,0xd402,11 ide3=0xd800,0xdc02,14
> Murty> You can find IO numbers from Fasttrack BIOS (press Cntrl+F at boot
> Murty> time) or in linux (cat /proc/pci)
>
> OH!
>
> In /proc/pci I had:
>
> Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
> RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 2).
> IRQ 9.
> Master Capable. Latency=64.
> I/O at 0xa800 [0xa807].
> I/O at 0xac00 [0xac03].
> I/O at 0xb000 [0xb007].
> I/O at 0xb400 [0xb403].
> I/O at 0xb800 [0xb83f].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5000000 [0xe501ffff].
>
> so I added:
>
> ide2=0xa800,0xac00 ide3=0xb000,0xb400
>
> Now, even though it's saying neither port is enabled:
>
> PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 50
> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0
> PDC20267: chipset revision 2
> PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PDC20267: ROM enabled at 0xe3000000
> PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode.
> PDC20267: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
>
> It definitely IS recognizing my drive! It's hde below:
>
> hda: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: Maxtor 91303D6, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hde: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead of ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> hde: IBM-DTLA-307060, ATA DISK drive
> hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> hdf: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0xff)
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2 at 0xa800-0xa807,0xac00 on irq 9
> blk: queue c03c0ba0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> blk: queue c03c0ba0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33)
> blk: queue c03c0cdc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> blk: queue c03c0cdc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hdb: 25450992 sectors (13031 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1584/255/63, UDMA(33)
> hde: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63
>
> Sadly though, when it tries to access the drive:
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2
> hdb: hdb1
> hde:hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> ide2: reset: master: error (0x00?)
> hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> hde: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> ide2: unexpected interrupt, status=0x58, count=1
> hde: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> ide2: reset: master: error (0x00?)
> end_request: I/O error, dev 21:00 (hde), sector 0
> unable to read partition table
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
>
> I feel I'm much closer . . . this drive worked fine 10 minutes ago with the
> Promise driver, so I'm confident this is not a cabling issue . . . any idea
> what I can try next?
>
> Thanks very much for your help so far.
>
> -Darren
>
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