Re: BF24 and Promise Fasttrack problem
On Tuesday 07 March 2000 23:37, Yann Lollivier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried it, it did work...After a wee trick :
>
> Actually I can see 10 different hex numbers, on five lines :
>
> 0xd000 [0xd007]
> 0xd400 [0xd403]
> 0xd800 [0xd807]
> 0xdc00 [0xdc03]
> 0xe000 [0xe03f]
>
> I tried your magic formula with the first set of number (without brackets),
> and it just reduced my screen to a very narrow one...So I disabled 'set IRQ
> for VGA' in bios and it worked perfect !!!
>
> Many thanks, I was going depressive about that...
>
> By the way, what are those numbers exactly ? might be obvious for you but
> I'm a kind of newbie...
>
> Yann
IIRc they are IO adresses. I found it somewhere on the web (can't remember
where, I remebered the solution) while having the same problem as you.
> At 01:05 06/08/2002 +0000, Meir Kriheli wrote:
> >On Thursday 01 August 2002 14:38, yann.lollivier@synteleya.com wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying without success to install the bf24 flavour on a server
> > > containing a Promise Fasttrack 100 Raid Card. I've got 2 disk on linked
> > > to the raid card, so I created a RAID1 array and enabled raid support
> > > in BIOS. I cannot install debian as the installation process does not
> > > detect any hard drive, however this card is supposed to be supported by
> > > the 5.4 kernel...and is also apparently known to cause problems with
> > > bf24. Anyone has a workaround on that ?
> >
> >Seems that bf24 cannot pick it autmatically (while Gentoo's kernel on the
> >install cd picked it up with no problems). Here's what you should do:
> >
> >In a terminal window (alt+f2 or alt+f3 can't remember) run:
> >
> >cat /proc/pci
> >
> >and look for the info about the PDC controller. As part of the info you'll
> >see
> >5 hex numbers listed one after the other, let's name the (a)-(e)
> >
> >Write down the numbers, reboot the install cd again and at the boot prompt
> >write:
> >
> >bf24 ide2=0x(a),0x(b+2) ide3=0x(c),0x(d+2)
> >
> >b+2 means the value of b incremented by 2, and same applies to d+2.
> >
> >Now the controller and raid should be detected.
> >
> >This is from memory, so tell me how it goes
> >
> > > More, Promise FastTack is not a real HW Raid, does someone knows how it
> > > compares to software Raid (performance, fault tolerance...) ? If it's
> > > as good I might go for it..
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Yann
> >
> >I was very disappointed by it. While working I pulled the plug on one of
> > the hd's (RAID1 config) to simulate a dying HD, lot of timeout message
> > started appearing and the systems froze. Once restarted the system didn't
> > boot.
> >
> >I bought a real IDE Raid soultion (LSI Logic), and it is awesome (although
> > a bit expansive). It handled to dying hd trick with no problems, after a
> > short pause the system continued working normally. When re-connected the
> > power it started rebuilding the array automatically, I was very pleased
> > by it.
> >
> >HTH
> >--
> >Meir Kriheli
> >
> >
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