Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:06:46 +0100 | From | Wolfram Schlich <> | Subject | Re: Hardlocks with 2.4.21-pre5, pdc202xx_new (PDC20269) and shared IRQs |
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* Chris Newland <chris.newland@emorphia.com> [2003-03-20 11:25]: > Hi Wolfram,
Hi!
> I had the same hardlock problem with dual athlons, MSI K7D Master, Promise > TX2000 (PDC20271) with 2 HDDs on RAID0 on the Promise card and only a CDROM > on the onboard IDE channel. > > It used to lock hard (2.4.18 vanilla kernel) on 'tar' when using a USB mouse > but I haven't had a single lockup since plugging in a PS2 mouse :) > > PS. Whilst 2.4 kernels run fine for me, I can't get any 2.5 kernel to run > yet. > > I get a VFS kernel panic on bootup (can't mount root device). > > I've installed Rusty's 2.5 modutils and tried compiling the 20271 driver > both into the kernel and as a module. > > I read in Dave Jones' post-halloween notes that the Promise drivers are > broken: > > <quote> > - The hptraid/promise RAID drivers are currently non functional, and > will probably be converted to use device-mapper. > </quote> > > Is this still true?
I have no idea... I'm not using: a) A Promise RAID controller (just the dumb ones) b) Kernel 2.5 :-) -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Yours sincerely Wolfram Schlich; Friedhofstr. 8, D-88069 Tettnang; +49-(0)178-SCHLICH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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