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Hi,
I am going insane trying to figure out what is
going on here. I hope someone can make sense of this!
I have an i386 box running Testing, it had a raid 5
array in it using the onboard ide controllers and this worked fine. I decided to
add 2 promise Ultra ATA 133 TX2 PCI controllers to put each drive on its own
channel to speed things up. First I used kernel 2.4.20 and the promise bios sees
all the drives OK, when the kernel boots it sees all the drives OK, if I cat
/proc/ide/hdg k i I can see the drives are there and get info on
them, however fdisk refuses to see anything higher than hdg.
I tried using chdisk and some other utilities and
they are the same, also progs like hddtemp cannot talk to the
drives.
I tried going back to 2.4.19 and applying the patch
on the promise site, the kernel still sees all the drives OK but I cannot get to
them with any programs.
Is there some sort of number of IDE devices or
address limitation that I need to change?
There are no IRQ conflicts or other problems that I
am aware of it seems to be a problem with programs accessing these
devices.
Rolf Schatzmann
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