Hi,
I have a Promise 20276 on my board. From my experience there are 2 reasons
why you would not see it. I suspect all you will need to do is number one
since your 2 hard drives are recognize but try both otherwise.
1) You need to specify the I/O port on the kernel command line.
on Lilo it is the line
append = "ide2=0xd000,0xd402 ide3-0xd800,0xdc02 hda=ide-scsi"
forget about the last part "hda=ide-scic", it is because I have a SCSI
drive but because you also have one, it may help you find the line. For
ide2= and ide3=, you will need to find the ports on your machines. You can
do this by going to Bash and type:
cat /proc/pci | less
Somewhere in the output you should see something similar to:
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device (rev
2).
Vendor id=105a. Device id=d30.
Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32.
(A) I/O at 0x9400 [0x9401].
(B) I/O at 0x9000 [0x9001].
(C) I/O at 0x8800 [0x8801].
(D) I/O at 0x8400 [0x8401].
I/O at 0x8000 [0x8001].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd5800000 [0xd5800000].
Please note the the letters A, B, C, and D are only for reference. These 4
lines contain the I/O addresses that you will need to make the installation
"see" your Promise ATA100 controller. These are the numbers that I have in
my /proc/pci. I assume that if you have an Asus A7V with BIOS 1003 that you
may have the same numbers. If so you can use this command:
ide2=0x9400, 0x9002 ide3=0x8800, 0x8402
If not, I will show you how to derive the LILO command that is right for
you.
The format for this ide command is easy and listed below.
ide2=A, B+2 ide3=C, D+2
When referencing the variables look at the example. On line A you see the
I/O address of 0x9400 (disregard the addresses in the brackets). You plug
that into the equation above. Then you grab the line B address and add 2 and
so on until you have all 4 variables done. Write this command down because
you will need it when you reboot.
Yoram
-----Original Message-----
From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jens W. Skov - JS
Consult
Sent: 17 August 2002 13:38
To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Still 20265
Hi
I got a little bit further with my problems.
I use a WD utility to write zeros to the both my 80Gb disks and the I
created the array with the promise controller and installed with noprobe
When it got to diskdruid is asks if ist should initialize sda, hde and
hdg. I answered only yes to sda, and the installed worked fine and fast
too.
After reboot the bootsequence stopped at the promise controller, and I had
to reboot and then rerbuild the mirror. After rebuilding I could boot
until right after the partitions were checked, then it seems lilke it
looses connection to one of the drives, as I had to reboot and rebuild the
mirror again. The problem is always the disk on channel1. No matter if I
swap disks.
I then turned the mirror in to two 1-disk-stripes and now it boots fine on
sda.
Can I turn sda and sdb into a linux softarray at this point. I have only
tried to do it during install.
In both situations i get an dependency error on boot that some symbols in
FastTrak.o failed.
Do I have a defective 20265 or what's haunting me?.. I have changed the
cables and tried some other discs.
- Jens W. Skov - JS Consult
- Phone: 45884077 / 23254077
- E-Mail: jens@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Web: http://www.jsconsult.dk http://jnet.dk
- NEW ADDRESS FROM JULY 02: Rævehøjparken 58, 2800 Lyngby
_______________________________________________
Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
