promise PDC20267 onboard supermicro P3TDDE

promise PDC20267 onboard supermicro P3TDDE

[William Thompson]

When I boot linux on this system and there is a disk attached to the promise
connector, the system hard locks.  It finds the PDC20267 and the Via ide
chipsets (in that order) and freezes here.  It doesn't show anything else.

I tried kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.19-pre10.

I also tried making ide a module, loading ide-mod.o freezes as well.

Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine.  I tried a
Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.

The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31

Re: promise PDC20267 onboard supermicro P3TDDE

[Don Krause]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:20, William Thompson wrote:
> When I boot linux on this system and there is a disk attached to the promise
> connector, the system hard locks.  It finds the PDC20267 and the Via ide
> chipsets (in that order) and freezes here.  It doesn't show anything else.
> 
> I tried kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.19-pre10.
> 
> I also tried making ide a module, loading ide-mod.o freezes as well.
> 
> Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine.  I tried a
> Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.
> 
> The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31
> -

FWIW, I also have this exact problem on a MSI 694D Pro Ar Mainboard,
with an onboard Promise PDC20265.

Every kernel I've tried (up to 2.4.19-pre7) froze hard right after
detecting the promise controller. It only hangs if there is a (any)
device plugged into the controller.

(Don't have much more info at this point, I needed this box for work, so
it got stuck with w2k, while my primary linux box is a ump 566. <sigh>
I'd love to swap these two boxes, the 694 has a pair of 933's and a gig
of memory, and sits mostly idle)
-- 
Don Krause                                            

Re: promise PDC20267 onboard supermicro P3TDDE

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 18:20, William Thompson wrote:
> Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine.  I tried a
> Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.
> 
> The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31

When 2.4.19pre10-ac2 appears please try that. I've merged a couple of
small fixes from Promise (not all the ones they want sorting - some of
it is a bit hairy so I'll let Andre do that 8))

Alan

Re: promise PDC20267 onboard supermicro P3TDDE

[William Thompson]

> > Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine.  I tried a
> > Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.
> > 
> > The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31
> 
> When 2.4.19pre10-ac2 appears please try that. I've merged a couple of
> small fixes from Promise (not all the ones they want sorting - some of
> it is a bit hairy so I'll let Andre do that 8))

Ok.  where do I get the ac patches at?  It's been a long time since I tried
one.

Re: promise PDC20267 onboard supermicro P3TDDE

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 18:46, William Thompson wrote:
> Ok.  where do I get the ac patches at?  It's been a long time since I tried
> one.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/..

Re: promise PDC20267 onboard supermicro P3TDDE

[William Thompson]

> > Removing the hdd from the controller and it boots just fine.  I tried a
> > Quantum fireball lct10 05 and a seagate st34311a with the same results.
> > 
> > The bios on the pdc controller is v1.31
> 
> When 2.4.19pre10-ac2 appears please try that. I've merged a couple of
> small fixes from Promise (not all the ones they want sorting - some of
> it is a bit hairy so I'll let Andre do that 8))

[root@test:/] cat /proc/partitions 
major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse
running use aveq

  33     0    5001412 hde 25414 381073 3251824 177230 0 0 0 0 2 306060 -131520
  33     1      48163 hde1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  33     2    3004155 hde2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  33     3    1092420 hde3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  33     4          1 hde4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  33     5     393561 hde5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  33     6     265041 hde6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  33     7     192748 hde7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   3     0    5001412 hda 2 3 16 30 0 0 0 0 -1 308750 -308750
   3     1    4988151 hda1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
[root@test:/] uname -a
Linux corp84 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 #2 SMP Thu Jun 6 10:20:02 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
[root@test:/] 

Looks like it works for me...  I haven't heavily used hde yet.  HD[AE] are
quantum fireballlct10 05