Re: Promise PDC20267 problems

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On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Murty Rompalli wrote:

> Do you have ext3 support built in the kernel ? Looks like you are using
> initrd, is your Linux OS in the Promise FastTrak disks ?

Yes, my Linux resides on FastTrak. As mutch as I know, EXT3 support is
included. (But I am not an experienced kernel configurator). So I included
my .config file here, so You can verify this or any other problems.



> On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Tiit Kaeeli wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using Intel SE7500CW2 motherboard with on-board Promise PDC20267
> > FastTrak 100 IDE Raid controller and trying to get 2.4.21-pre6 kernel
up
> > and running with it. System is RedHat 7.3. When I boot my new kernel,
I
> > get following errors after
> >         Mounting root filesystem in read-write mode     [OK]
> > and some more [OK]- s:
> >
> >         Finding module dependencies: execvp: Input/output error
> >         EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,2)): read_inode_bitmap:
Cannot
> > read
> >         inode bitmap - block_group=<number>
> >
> > Following many more errors like that with different block_group
numbers
> > (Sorry, theese are only notes on paper)
> >
> > I also tried RedHat kernel 2.4.20-8 and got the same errors. Kernel
> > configuration file is kernel-2.4.20-i686-smp.config from RedHat
2.4.20-8
> > source tree, only made modifications noted in Murty Rompalli-s Linux
ATA
> > RAID HOWTO. With older kernels I got lost IRQ errors, but according to
> > /proc/pci PDC20267 is not sharing its IRQ with any other device. I
found
> > postings saying that there is a bug in kernels prior 2.4.21 causing
this
> > bahavior, so I decided to try 2.4.21
> >
> > my /etc/lilo.conf:
> >
> > prompt
> > timeout=500
> > default=2.4.18-3smp
> > boot=/dev/sda
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > message=/boot/message
> > lba32
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3smp
> >         label=2.4.18-3smp
> >         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3smp.img
> >         read-only
> >         root=/dev/sda2
> >         append="hda=ide-scsi"
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-pre6
> >         label=2.4.21-pre6
> >         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-pre6.img
> >         read-only
> >         root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2
> >         append="hda=ide-scsi"
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8custom
> >         label=2.4.20-8custom
> >         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8custom.img
> >         read-only
> >         root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2
> >         append="hda=ide-scsi"
> >
> > Do I have to use append line? ATA RAID HOWTO talks about append line
only
> > when adding new non-os disks?
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Tiit Kaeeli
> > tiit_k@xxxxx
> >
> >
> >
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> > 
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> >
>
>
>
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Tiit Kaeeli
tiit_k@xxxxx





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