Re: Promise Controller

[Richard Fillion <rick@rhix.ods.org>]

Well there goes a reboot for nothing... it was already in a 32bit pci
slot.  The only thing i have in a 64bit pci slot is my video card.  Any
other ideas?  

Richard Fillion
rick@rhix.ods.org

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:42:39PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> 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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