Re: Hang with Promise Ultra100 TX2 (kernel 2.4.18)

From: Pasi Kärkkäinen
Date: Sat Jan 17 2004 - 04:53:58 EST


On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:02:44PM -0600, Cheng Huang wrote:
> Thanks for replying. Can you explain a little bit where to get the driver for latest versions? Thanks.
>

Copy the promise driver from 2.4.24 kernel to 2.4.18 kernel, and hope it
works :)

- Pasi Kärkkäinen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pasi K???kk???nen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:49 AM
> To: Cheng Huang
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Hang with Promise Ultra100 TX2 (kernel 2.4.18)
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:17:12AM -0600, Cheng Huang wrote:
> > I have to use kernel 2.4.18 because I need to install KURT (realtime
> > linux) with it. However, my system hangs on boot with the following
> > message:
> >
> > PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > PDC20268: ROM enabled at 0xff900000
> > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfcc0-0xfcc7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfcc8-0xfccf, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> >
> > I have tried tricks I could find in through google, like setting boot
> > parameters "hde=4866,255,63 hde=noprobe hdg=24321,255,163 hdg=noprobe".
> > But it didn't work.
> >
> > Could anybody provide some clue about how to fix this problem? Thanks
> > very much.
> >
>
> I think there has been a lot of bug fixes in the latest 2.4 kernels for
> promise cards.
>
> I'm running promise ultra133-tx2 successfully with 2.4.22 kernel.
>
> Merge the promise driver from later 2.4.x kernels to 2.4.18 and recompile?
>
> -- Pasi Kärkkäinen
>
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