Re: Hardlocks with 2.4.21-pre5, pdc202xx_new (PDC20269) and shared IRQs

[Wolfram Schlich <wolfram@schlich.org>]

* Chris Newland <chris.newland@emorphia.com> [2003-03-20 11:25]:
> Hi Wolfram,

Hi!

> I had the same hardlock problem with dual athlons, MSI K7D Master, Promise
> TX2000 (PDC20271) with 2 HDDs on RAID0 on the Promise card and only a CDROM
> on the onboard IDE channel.
> 
> It used to lock hard (2.4.18 vanilla kernel) on 'tar' when using a USB mouse
> but I haven't had a single lockup since plugging in a PS2 mouse :)
> 
> PS. Whilst 2.4 kernels run fine for me, I can't get any 2.5 kernel to run
> yet.
> 
> I get a VFS kernel panic on bootup (can't mount root device).
> 
> I've installed Rusty's 2.5 modutils and tried compiling the 20271 driver
> both into the kernel and as a module.
> 
> I read in Dave Jones' post-halloween notes that the Promise drivers are
> broken:
> 
> <quote>
> - The hptraid/promise RAID drivers are currently non functional, and
>   will probably be converted to use device-mapper.
> </quote>
> 
> Is this still true?

I have no idea... I'm not using:
a) A Promise RAID controller (just the dumb ones)
b) Kernel 2.5
:-)
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