Re: mkfs.ext2 - state D partitioning stops at 33% /boot
> @all:
> Are there any users that had success with Promise based ATA controllers
> on UltraSPARC?
As a matter of fact, I do. I had a software RAID running on 2 SATA disks
on a Promise SATA300 TX4 controller and even built a custom mounting
bracket for my old Ultra 10 to hold more than one disk.
But, this was with Debian 4 (or thereabouts) and the sparc32 userland,
and the boot disk was connected to the internal PATA controller.
Not sure if this still bears much relevance.
> @Mike:
> I wonder if your problems could be an endianness issue in the Promise
> drivers. In the end, I assume these were mostly used on x86. I'd expect
> it to work with the onboard ATA controller of the Ultra 5 - at least it
> worked for me when I tried an installation on my Ultra 10 and I believe
> the hardware used in both machines is similar to identical. That it
> works with OpenBSD for you could be due to their development process
> which takes into account the specifics of many different architectures.
If there is any relevance to my older success story, the issue may have
creeped in much later than kernel 2.6.18. It could also be a 32/64-bit
issue, as the the Debian sparc kernel was 64-bit and the userland 32-bit
back then (as far as I remember).
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