Hello,
I am following Murty's helpful HOW-TO to install a SMP system over a
FastTrak 100 Lite on-board RAID. Rather than a mirror, though, I am trying a
stripe set with 2 drives. These are the only drives on the system other than
a CD-ROM on the second regular IDE channel.
Everything goes well to start:
7.3 base installation goes well and I can boot with the FastTrak module and
ramdisk.
Build of a 2.4.19 kernel is fine, I based mine on the config provided by
Murty.
New .19 kernel is self contained using the ataraid and Promise support, no
need for ramdisk or Promise module. It boots and seems to function ok but a
slew of drive errors occur on boot..
>>
Dec 28 22:22:12 localhost kernel: ead_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Dec 28 22:22:12 localhost kernel: hde: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Dec 28 22:22:12 localhost kernel: hde: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
Dec 28 22:22:12 localhost kernel: hde: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Dec 28 22:22:12 localhost kernel: hde: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
Dec 28 22:22:12 localhost kernel: ide2: reset: success
<<
etc. etc. etc.
Using Murty's formula and after looking at the /proc/pci, I had to config my
lilo as follows:
>>
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19
label=my19
read-only
root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2
append="ide2=0xa400,0xa802,10 ide3=0xac00,0xb002,10"
(BTW, I also tried ide0 and ide1 and errors reflect hda rather than hde)
<<
I have not yet updated my lilo binaries as Murty prescribes. I want to first
make sure I am not doing something wrong or heading into trouble. When I
boot with my old .18-3 kernel with the FastTrak module, I get no errors.
These are new IBM drives and even though the error messages above often
indicate impending doom, I think they are fine.
Thanks for any help. Happy New Year.
-esc
