Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: EATA driver and 2.2 kernel problems? | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:00:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | (H.J. Lu) |
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> > The following was stated by hjl@lucon.org: > > > We are having serious problems with EATA drivers under Linux 2.2.5 > > and 2.2.7, especially in SMP kernel. We tried eata_dma and eata > > drivers. Neither will work with SMP. For eata_dma, we got > > > > eata_dma: trying to reset HBA at 0150 to clear possible blink state. > > HBA at 0x0150 does not react on INQUERY. Sorry. > > > > in SMP kernel. The same hardware seems to work when booting with UP > > kernel of the same kernel version. With different 2.2 versions, > > sometimes UP kernel will panic with NULL point reference. > > > > Does anyone have any EATA drivers working with 2.2 and SMP? >
Thanks for all who responded. The EATA driver works fine with SMP. It is just that RedHat 6.0 not only cannot autodetect DPT but also just provides eata_dma and eata_pio during installation. Now I have fixed RedHat 6.0 installation. Everything works fine now.
H.J.
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