Re: Promise PDC20265 lockups...Please help
I am haing identical probs. Have tried various kernel options, including the
support for booting on off-board cards; ide=reverse; various bios configs
such as dis/en-abling pnp etc... No luck. I've followed mini-howto on
ultra66 - nothing seems to work. I also have winblows installed on a
separate partition and it seems to boot find off of ultra66.
My setup:
latest bios on abit be-6
secondary ide port has two cdroms attached to it
nothing on on-board hpt controller and nothing on primary ide
have three HDDs #1 on promise's ide1 and HDD #2,3 are on promise's ide2
the first HDD, first partition contains winblows, and third partition
contains debian.
I am not sure whether it is this setup that fails me miserably or the kernel
or something else?!
Any help/leads/painful memories - please, share!
Paul
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:55:38AM -0500, Bradley Alexander wrote:
> I'm having problems with a Promise controller on my motherboard.
> Everything works fine until I plug a drive into it, which kinda defeats
> the purpose of having it on the motherboard. :)
>
> In any case, it is 1GHz Athlon-C running Debian/sid. The motherboard is
> an Asus A7V133 with 768MB of RAM. It has a VIA Southbridge controlling
> hda-hdd, and a Promise PDC20265 controlling drives hde-hdh. I have 30GB
> drives on hda (Maxtor), hdc (Maxtor) and hde (Quantum), plus DVD drive
> on hdb and a cd-rw on hdd.
>
> I rebuilt the machine about 2 months ago, and as yet have had no success
> in getting the drive on the Promise controller to work. This worked on
> this same machine prior to the rebuild using 2.4.19.
>
> I have tried it with 2.4.18bf2.4 and 2.4.19. I have recompiled 2.4.19
> several times trying different options. On boot, it gets as far as
> checking the drives and then locks hard:
>
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0xif7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2 at 0x9400-0x9407,0x9002 on ifq 10
> hda: 60030432 sectors (30736 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3736/255/63
> hdc: 60030432 sectors (30736 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=59554/16/63
>
> In theory, it then scan hde, but the system freezes, and has to be cold
> booted. I have verified the kernel configs as well as packages (I built
> from the prior package lists, though there are a few differences due to
> the last rebuild being Jun, 1998).
>
> Can anyone help me out on getting this drive running?
>
> Regards,
> --
> --Brad
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