> We are having serious problems with EATA drivers under Linux 2.2.5
> and 2.2.7, especially in SMP kernel. We tried eata_dma and eata
> drivers. Neither will work with SMP. For eata_dma, we got
>
> eata_dma: trying to reset HBA at 0150 to clear possible blink state.
> HBA at 0x0150 does not react on INQUERY. Sorry.
>
> in SMP kernel. The same hardware seems to work when booting with UP
> kernel of the same kernel version. With different 2.2 versions,
> sometimes UP kernel will panic with NULL point reference.
>
> Does anyone have any EATA drivers working with 2.2 and SMP?
Working fine here on a compaq proliant 1600 w/two PII 450's and a DPT
SmartRAID PM3334UW/2 with a Raid 5 array using the eata driver.
However, I did have to change the EBDA Relocatable setting in the BIOS of
the card as instructed by DPT when I could not get it to work correctly at
first. I don't remember if it defaulted to enabled and I changed it to
disabled or the other way around, and I can't take the machine down
currently.
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