Try these and see if there is any progress: 1. Dont use ide=reverse 2. Dont use hdd=ide-scsi 3. Fix PCI IRQ in motherboard BIOS 4. Use idebus=66 4. Dont use ide2=.. and ide3=.. 5. Make sure your existing linux has ataraid and pdcraid modules available 6. Make sure IRQ for hde and hdg is not being used by any other devices Good luck, murty On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, David Vasil wrote: > Hey all, > I have a motherboard (ECS K7VTA3 V3.1) with onboard RAID > from promise using the chip PDC20265R. I bought two Maxtor > DiamondMax 80Gb identical drives. I am booting off of a > already functional gentoo linux system using a 46Gb disk > on ide0. hda is the 46Gb, hdb is a 1.6Gb, hdc is a cdrom, > hdd is a cdrw, hde is 80Gb#1, hdg is 80Gb#2. > > When booting with the drives hooked up and the disks in a > RAID0 container the kernel only gets this far and then hangs > forever: > > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89 > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:11.1. Please try using pci=biosirq. > VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1 > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 > PDC20265: chipset revision 2 > PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode. > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio > > The next part should be the actual drive assignments, but it > never gets that far. I downloaded the archives for this list > and sifted through them, but didnt see anyone with my chipset > that actuall hung at this part. I also followed the directions > from www.murty.net/ataraid/ and got the same results. > > Some additional info: > - Kernel: > - 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 > - IDE/ATA Config: > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y > CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m > CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y > CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y > CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST=y > CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y > CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC=y > > - Grub: > - title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.19-r10 Compiled February 26th > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/bzImage-gentoo-2.4.19-r10-feb26 \ > root=/dev/hda5 \ > mem=nopentium \ > hdd=ide-scsi \ > ide=reverse \ > ide2=0xc400,0xc802,11 \ > ide3=0xcc00,0xd002,11 > - (The kernel line is all on one line in my grub.conf, I split > it up for easier reading in this email). > > - /proc/pci: > - Bus 0, device 15, function 0: > RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265 (rev 2). > IRQ 11. > Master Capable. Latency=32. > I/O at 0xc400 [0xc407]. > I/O at 0xc800 [0xc803]. > I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc07]. > I/O at 0xd000 [0xd003]. > I/O at 0xd400 [0xd43f]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3000000 [0xe301ffff]. > > If anyone has any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong, > please enlighten me. Thanks! > >
