On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:01:20AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Kurt Roeckx writes: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:28:06AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > 00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) (rev 02) > > > ... > > > > 00:08.0 0104: 105a:3376 (rev 02) > > > > > > Let me guess, this is a Promise chip included on the mainboard > > > as a RAID controller, and not an add-on PCI card? > > > > Yes, it's a K8V motherboard which has that onboard. > > > > > If it's a mainboard chip, please enter the BIOS and see if it > > > can be configured for non-RAID mode. If it can, please reconfigure > > > it and boot Linux. Does it still claim to be a 20376 or is it > > > now a 20378? > > > > I can't find an option to turn that off in the BIOS. If it did, I'd > > probably have turned it off already. I've also opened the case and it > > says PDC20376 on the chip. > > Ok. I haven't yet found any information about the 20376 which > could explain why the 20376 fails while the 20378 works. > For now, you can disable hotplugging in the driver by applying > the patch below. This should at least bring back some stability > to your system. > > Longer-term I guess I'll have to invent a blacklist mechanism > to automatically prevent 20376 chips from enabling hotplugging. > That is, unless someone can show me a system where a 20376 > actually does work with hotplugging, in which case I'd need a > module parameter (yuck) or some form of dynamic detection of > this condition. Hi, I'm still having this problem with a 2.6.29 kernel. I want to avoid always having to patch my kernel, so I would like to see some solution to this. What do you think that the best way forward is? Kurt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
