RE: Adding SCSI Controller, SCSI Tape, and SCSI Disk to 2.2.20-idepci system
Just a thought, but you may have an IDE controller that requires a
workaround.
I'm not an expert as to the differences in standard IDE controller
configuration between v2.2 and v2.4, but I would guess that some controllers
that required the config option "other IDE chipset support" in the kernel
v2.2 are automatically supported under v2.4. This may mean that the boot
time DMA modes are different. Try reading ide.txt in the kernel
documentation with regards to setting up the various modes.
Regards,
Colin Ellis
Solution City Ltd
http://www.solution-city.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug MacFarlane [mailto:madmac@covad.net]
Sent: 14 January 2003 15:30
To: Colin Ellis; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Adding SCSI Controller, SCSI Tape, and SCSI Disk to
2.2.20-idepci system
On 14 Jan 2003, 14:51:26, Colin Ellis wrote:
> From looking at your dmesg output, it looks like your drive hdb is on its
> way out...
I am concerned about that myself, but when I boot the non-initrd
2.2.20-idepci
kernel, I don't get any of those messages . . .
madmac
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug MacFarlane [mailto:madmac@covad.net]
> Sent: 14 January 2003 14:28
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; nate; Eduard Bloch
> Subject: Re: Adding SCSI Controller, SCSI Tape, and SCSI Disk to
> 2.2.20-idepci system
>
>
> On 13 Jan 2003, 15:30:52, nate wrote:
> > Doug MacFarlane said:
> > > So I apt-got a 2.4.19-686 kernel image, and when I rebooted, I had to
> use
> > > modconf to enable the 3c59x driver, and when I rebooted, it runs like
> > > molasses . . . during boot, it takes minutes to complete the calculate
> > > module dependencies step. This hadn't happened before, and I don't
have
> > > time to figure it out yet . . .
> >
> > this is odd, but does it boot eventually? does this happen everytime
> > it boots? after it boots can you delete
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep
> > and run depmod -a ..does it take the same amount of time?
>
> Yes, it boots but runs very slowly.
>
> If I delete modules.dep and then run depmod -a, the depmod completes in
less
> than a second. But the Calculating Module Dependencies during boot takes
> 3 minutes . . .
>
> I think I have a problem with initrd - I'm pasting in a piece of dmesg
> below:
>
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev a1
> PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x14c0-0x14c7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x14c8-0x14cf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: ST34321A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: ST38641A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5602B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> blk: queue cc84eea4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hda: 8421840 sectors (4312 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=8912/15/63, UDMA(25)
> blk: queue cc84eff0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hdb: 16809660 sectors (8607 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=16676/16/63, UDMA(25)
> Partition check:
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [557/240/63] p1 p2 < p5 >
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0:hdb: set_multmode: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> [PTBL] [1111/240/63] p1 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 > p2
> ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,69)
>
> I have no idea why it's trying to use ext3 and jbd . . .
>
> When I boot 2.2.20, it, ofcourse, is NOT an initrd kernel, and it runs
fine,
> and I don't get any of these messages in dmesg . . .
>
> So my workaround will be to recompile the 2.4.29 or 2.4.20 kernel without
> changing the config, and leaving off the --initrd make-kpkg option, and
> editing
> lilo.conf to remove the initrd option, and see if that fixes it . . .
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> As always, thanks for your help.
>
> madmac
>
>
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