Re: BF24 and Promise Fasttrack problem
Hello,
Is there someone who had succes, using RAID1 with a Fasttrack controler.
OK, the installation succeeded (thanks to these messages ) and I'm only
seeing 1 harddisk while using the server in a normal operation
(/dev/ataraid/).
When I unplug disk 2 (/dev/hdg) and reboot everything still works fine, but
if disk 1(/dev/hde) is unplugged, and disk 2 is plugged (plugged in port 1
or 2 ), lilo is starting ,but soon giving up.
Messages like these apear : (by head, if you wanna need more, no probs)
printing eip : 00000000...
..
oops 0000
...
not tainted
..
bad eip value
kernel panic : Attempted to kill init
ps. If I mount the second disk (/dev/hdg), everything looks fine, the OS
and data are nicely mirrored.
Someoneone has an idea or should I just give up on the fasttrack controler?
Hans
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
>
To be complete, I had to add the string, append="bf24 ide2=0x(a),0x(b+2)
ide3=0x(c),0x(d+2)" in my lilo.conf as well (/target/etc/lilo.conf) to be
able to boot from harddisk.
> > 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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