Re: Promise Controller
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:01:31PM -0600, Richard Fillion wrote:
> > 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)
> > 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.
I had a similar problem with my promise cards (non-alpha system, but
possibly useful), where if i had a slave drive, but no master drive, the
drive would give me these errors. Moving the lone slave drive to the
master spot fixed my problems and my promise card because stable.
c
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