Re: IDE/Promise 20276 FastTrack RAID Doesn't work in 2.4.21, patch attached to fix

[Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>]

Samuel Flory wrote:

> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you have "Special FastTrak Feature" enabled?
>>  
>>
>
> Can we change the option to something that makes sense.  I get the 
> feeling no one understands what it does at 1st glance.  This is the 
> 2nd time I've seen a patch like this. 

I tried the kernel with fasttrack enabled because I saw something about 
forcing the bios, but either it doesn't work or it doesn't work with my 
adaptor.  The patch does work, though.

But I definately agree, special fasttrack feature should atleast have 
some useful help information for how it is used (if anyone knows?)

-steve

>
>> -- 
>> Bartlomiej
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Steven Dake wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> After I upgraded to 2.4.21, I noticed my Gigabyte motherboard with
>>> onboard IDE Promise 20276 FastTrack RAID no longer works.  The 
>>> following
>>> patch fixes the problem, which appears to be an incomplete list of
>>> devices in the ide setup code.  There are probably other fasttrack RAID
>>> adaptors that should be added to the setup code, but I don't know what
>>> they are.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -steve
>>>   
>>
>>
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>
>diff -ur linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/Documentation/Configure.help linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/Documentation/Configure.help
>--- linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/Documentation/Configure.help	2003-07-07 04:23:56.000000000 -0700
>+++ linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/Documentation/Configure.help	2003-07-10 05:53:27.000000000 -0700
>@@ -1297,9 +1297,12 @@
> 
>   If unsure, say N.
> 
>-Special FastTrak Feature
>+Ignore FastTrak Bios and configure drives as IDE disks
> CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE
>-  For FastTrak enable overriding BIOS.
>+  Enable overriding BIOS RAID configuration.  Without this option the 
>+  kernel may refuse to see your drives.  Do not enable if you are 
>+  using Promise's binary module.  This option is compatible with the 
>+  GPL ataraid driver.
> 
> SiS5513 chipset support
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513
>diff -ur linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/drivers/ide/Config.in linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/drivers/ide/Config.in
>--- linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1-old/drivers/ide/Config.in	2003-07-07 04:18:53.000000000 -0700
>+++ linux-2.4.22-pre3-ac1/drivers/ide/Config.in	2003-07-10 05:51:22.000000000 -0700
>@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
> 	    dep_mbool     '      Special UDMA Feature' CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI
> 	    dep_tristate '    PROMISE PDC202{68|69|70|71|75|76|77} support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI
> 	    if [ "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD" = "m" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW" = "m" ]; then
>-	        bool     '    Special FastTrak Feature' CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE
>+	        bool     '    Ignore FastTrak Bios and configure drives as IDE disks' CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE
> 	    fi
> 	    dep_tristate '    RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 $CONFIG_X86
> 	    dep_tristate '    SCx200 chipset support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200 $CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI
>  
>