Re: Promise Controller
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:01:31PM -0600, Richard Fillion wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get a Promise controller working in my PWS500au, and i'm
> not having very good luck. The controller works cause i used it once in
> my celeron, and it works with linux/alpha cause i used to use it in my
> DS3305 to get this same drive to work. Here's what the kernel spits out
> before it stops at boot:
>
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide2 at 0x8410-0x8417, 0x8422 on irq 44
> blk: queue fffffc0000658080, no I/O memory limit.
> hdf: 117231408 sectors (60022MB) w/ 2048KiB cache, CHS 116301/16/63
> UDMA(100)
> hda: ATAPI 32x CD-ROM drive 256kb cache, DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision 3.12
> Parition check:
> hdf: hdf: dma_intr: status 0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> hdf: dma_intr: error 0x84 {DriveStatus Error Bad CRC}
>
> And then it just sits there...
Is the PROMISE card in a 32-bit or 64-bit slot?
If the latter, put it in the former and try again. There are known
DMA problems on PWS when using nthe 64-bit slots.
--Jay++
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Jay A Estabrook HPTC - LINUX support
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