Re: AEC6280 problem at boot

[Kaspar Fischer <fischerk@inf.ethz.ch>]

Hi everybody,

With the help of Thibaut and Benjamin (see previous posts) I was
able to get the card running! Thank you a lot!

I downloaded the source of the 2.6.8 kernel (which is a Debian
package), applied Thibaut's patch and compiled the resulting
patched kernel as described in the Debian manual:

  http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch08s04.html.en
  http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html

(In my case I also had to make an initial ramdisk, man mkinitrd,
something which I think is not covered in the above manual.)

Many thanks,
Kaspar

On 06.02.2006, at 19:00, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> On 2/6/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 18:13 +0100, Kaspar Fischer wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > I have installed an
> > >
> > >    Acard AEC-6280M (Version 2.16)
> > >
> > > PCI-to-IDE extension card into one of my mac's PCI slots.
> > > However, when I boot Debian Linux 2.6.8-powerpc, the
> > > following message shows up.
> > >
> > >    Wait for ready failed before probe !
> > >    hde: lost interrupt
> > >
> > > (I am sorry that I cannot reproduce the error verbatim;
> > > I have a huge number of Firewire-related error messages
> > > so that dmesg skips the beginning of the boot messages.)
> > >
> > > Does anybody know what the above lost interrupt/failure
> > > means and how I can fix it?
> >
> > This card needs a patch to work properly... ask Thibaut VARENE
> > <T-Bone@parisc-linux.org>. I suppose that patch could be included in
> > Debian kernel...
>
> It's been included in current git tree and will show in 2.6.16. You
> can find it here:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=113128446708744&q=p3
>
> I suppose it would probably be a good idea to backport it to debian's
> 2.6.15 which is (iirc) scheduled to be the kernel shipped with etch...
> Besides, it's quite a simple patch.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Thibaut VARENE
> http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/