Re: EATA driver and 2.2 kernel problems?

H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:00:29 -0700 (PDT)

>
> The following was stated by hjl@lucon.org:
>
> > 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?
>

Thanks for all who responded. The EATA driver works fine with SMP.
It is just that RedHat 6.0 not only cannot autodetect DPT but also
just provides eata_dma and eata_pio during installation. Now I have
fixed RedHat 6.0 installation. Everything works fine now.

H.J.

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