From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264930AbTLWDSY (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:18:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264933AbTLWDSR (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:18:17 -0500 Received: from bay8-dav33.bay8.hotmail.com ([64.4.26.90]:47116 "EHLO hotmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264930AbTLWDSF (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:18:05 -0500 X-Originating-IP: [194.236.130.199] X-Originating-Email: [nikomail@hotmail.com] From: "Nicklas Bondesson" To: "'Walt H'" Cc: Subject: RE: Error mounting root fs on 72:01 using Promise FastTrak TX2000 (PDC20271) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 04:18:05 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <3FE7A35E.9090507@comcast.net> Thread-Index: AcPI+gi1zCk2AukiSkaGh2jAGUI14wACRdvg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Dec 2003 03:18:04.0539 (UTC) FILETIME=[60F6FCB0:01C3C903] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The patch did not work for me, in fact there was no change at all (anything affected to me). The Promise ataraid driver never gets loaded. /Nicke -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Walt H Sent: den 23 december 2003 03:07 To: Nicklas Bondesson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Error mounting root fs on 72:01 using Promise FastTrak TX2000 (PDC20271) Nicklas Bondesson wrote: > Actually the 2.4.18 seems to be the only one working. I'm sure someone > out there have the proper fix for this. Who should I talk to in order > to get this fixed? I'm willing to help out in any way I can. > > /Nicke Well, not really sure. I thought Alan Cox did the original pdcraid.c for linux some time back, but it really hasn't seen many changes. There were two general Linux changes that took place back around 2.4.22 that might affect you. The first, was the addition of the new Promise IDE driver, which you've got configured. The second, has to do with how Linux reports the geometry of a drive. This change affected my setup which is why I wrote the patch for the pdcraid driver. If your system makes it all the way through kernel booting (which it seems to do), but can't mount the filesystem on the raid, it seems to indicate the latter change affecting you also. The only other thing I can think of, is to use my patch (attached) with patch -p1 < pdcraid.patch from your /usr/src/linux and make sure that you've got both Promise drivers compiled in your kernel. Recompile and see what happens. Outside of that, I'm stuck. Good luck, -Walt