Re: mkfs.ext2 - state D partitioning stops at 33% /boot
Can you by any chance tell me how i could obtain a list of all PCI
cards that are possibly supported and might work on debian sparc?
Regards,
Connor
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 5:33 PM Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote:
>
> On 22.06.20 17:17, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> >> @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.
>
> Well, so the driver was at least working somewhere in the past. OTOH
> you're speaking about SATA, so most likely this was with another driver.
> Looking at [1] the Promise SATA300 TX4 looks like a "real" SATA
> controller not like older ones that were actually ATA controllers and
> used some adapter chips. Maybe things also look differently with SATA.
> But interesting point anyhow - SATA RAID on Ultra 10. :-)
>
> [1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=815&num=1
>
> >
> >> @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).
>
> Yeah, but the drivers don't depend on the userland, or do they? Maybe
> the specific Promise driver for Mike's controller just broke some time
> ago or was broken on UltraSPARC ever since.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
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