Re: mkfs.ext2 - state D partitioning stops at 33% /boot

On Jun 22, 2020, at 8:17 AM, Gregor Riepl <onitake@gmail.com> 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.

@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).

This has been solved. It was “hardware” related, sort of. I had turned of the EIDE board via setenv pcib-probe-list figuring that I was not using it and did not need it. (I also turned off the mach64 video card). Well curiously I think that prevents the system from being able to use DMA (I assume the IRQ never get allocated or something like that). Which causes these cards to be forced into PIO4 and not really work correctly with modern kernels.

Here we see it correctly set up

[   14.063745] scsi host0: pata_pdc202xx_old

[   14.075370] scsi host1: pata_cmd64x

[   14.076299] scsi host2: pata_pdc202xx_old

[   14.076897] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1fe02000400 ctl 0x1fe02000408 bmdma 0x1fe02000440 irq 15

[   14.076914] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1fe02000410 ctl 0x1fe02000418 bmdma 0x1fe02000448 irq 15

[   14.087272] scsi host3: pata_cmd64x

[   14.088010] ata3: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x1fe02c00000 ctl 0x1fe02c00008 bmdma 0x1fe02c00020 irq 13

[   14.088026] ata4: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x1fe02c00010 ctl 0x1fe02c00018 bmdma 0x1fe02c00028 irq 13

[   14.090801] pata_cmd64x: active 10 recovery 10 setup 3.

[   14.090821] pata_cmd64x: active 10 recovery 10 setup 3.

[   14.240097] ata1.00: ATA-9: OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD, R0522A0, max UDMA/133

[   14.240118] ata1.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)

[   14.264918] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      OWC Mercury Elec 2A0  PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

The install is almost done, so after I’ve played around some bits I’ll post up a more complete success with details. [Feeling dumb for banging my head against that wall for so long but oh well.]

Thanks again for the input.

-Mike