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SubjectRe: AMI MegaRAID driver update
In <36B65541.CF72E164@netscape.com> Dan Christian (robodan@netscape.com) wrote:
> I tried to use this with a SMP, 2Gb kernel (__PAGE_OFFSET set to 0x70000000
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's not allowed. Only 0x8000000, 0xC0000000, 0xE0000000, 0xF0000000, etc are
allowed. I'm not know if this will help you...

> in page.h and vmlinux.lds) and get a panic. Everything seems fine until it
> probes partition tables on the AMI controller (there are no other disks).

> The first disk seems OK (and should be the boot disk). The second and third
> virtual disk claim that they don't have a partiton table.

> The kernel then panics because it can't mount the root partition.

> The first disk is a single disk. The second and third virtual disks are
> RAID-0, two and three physical disks respectivley. The controller is a 428,
> Rev-D1, with battery backup, bios 1.47.

> Unfortunately, I don't have another disk to boot from to isolate driver
> problems from kernel problems. If I use a stock 2.2.1 kernel with "mem=950M",
> then things seem to work fine.

> Any ideas on what could be going wrong?

> Thanks,
> -Dan Christian

> Jeffrey Jones wrote:

>> I realized that it is silly of me to post these in the form of patches,
>> (since the patches are longer than the two source files combined). So here
>> are the source files, just copy them over linux/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c and
>> linux/drivers/scsi/megaraid.h,
>> they will work for 2.0,2.1, and 2.2 kernels.
>> Also I forgot to mention there is a Redhat boot.img and supp.img that has
>> the driver (older version) on it so you can install to a RAID drive as the
>> boot device... at ftp://ftp.megatrends.com/megaraid/drivers/linux
>>
>> Jeff L Jones <jeffreyj@ami.com>
>> RAID SW Dev., American Megatrends Inc.





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