Why do you have hde and hdf; you are supposed to connect disks such that your Promise disks are: hde and hdg 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >