From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:38:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:38:27 -0500 Received: from steam.colabnet.com ([198.165.224.35]:11781 "EHLO torsus.hive.colabnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:38:02 -0500 Subject: Re: Promise SuperTrak100 Oops/Kernel Panic From: Rob Lake To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3C6AF523.9070703@colabnet.com> In-Reply-To: <3C6AF523.9070703@colabnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 13 Feb 2002 22:12:01 -0330 Message-Id: <1013650921.2150.5.camel@sphere878.hive.colabnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It was suggested to try RedHat 2.4.9 trees or 2.4.18-rc1. Both attempts leave the i2o_block module initializing (no oops/panic, just boredom). 2.4.18-rc1 says this in /var/log/messages: Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: Linux I2O PCI support (c) 1999 Red Hat Software. Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: I2O Core - (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: i2o: Checking for PCI I2O controllers... Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.1 Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: i2o: I2O controller on bus 0 at 89. Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: i2o: PCI I2O controller at 0xE9800000 size=4194304 Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: I2O: Promise workarounds activated. Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: i2o/iop0: Installed at IRQ10 Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: i2o: 1 I2O controller found and installed. Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: I2O: Event thread created as pid 1496 Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: Activating I2O controllers... Feb 13 21:52:08 sphere878 kernel: This may take a few minutes if there are many devices Feb 13 21:52:10 sphere878 kernel: i2o/iop0: Reset rejected, trying to clear Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: i2o/iop0: LCT has 4 entries. Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: I2O Block Storage OSM v0.9 Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: (c) Copyright 1999-2001 Red Hat Software. Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: i2o_block: registered device at major 80 Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: i2o_block: Checking for Boot device... Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: i2o_block: Checking for I2O Block devices... Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: i2ob: Installing tid 14 device at unit 0 Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: i2o/hda: Max segments 8, queue depth 4, byte limit 6144. Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: i2o/hda: Disk Storage: 305274MB, 512 byte sectors. Feb 13 21:52:15 sphere878 kernel: i2o/hda: Maximum sectors/read set to 32. Feb 13 21:52:17 sphere878 kernel: i2o/hda:r 3 Feb 13 21:52:17 sphere878 kernel: I2O: Spurious reply to handler 3 Feb 13 21:52:17 sphere878 last message repeated 454 times Would a corrupt partition table do this to me? Because it is corrupt. I'm trying this to fdisk it. Thanks again, I appreciate any insight, Rob