Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:03:55 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Bug with PCI initialization in pre2 on a dual P100 |
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> I have a dual Pentium 100 machine which uses (I recently found out) a Fugutech > motherboard. Apparently this is not the best of boards. It uses Award BIOS > v4.50G. > > I used to use the < 2.3.20 kernels without incident until the HD died. After > being down a while, the machine is back with a Promise UDMA/66 card > (PDC20262) and a new HD. Unfortunately, now the 2.3.xx kernels no longer > work. During boot I get: > > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xfb690 > PCI: Using configuration type 2 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 00:03.0 > PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 00:03.0 > PCI: Failed to allocate resource 1 for Promise Technology, Inc. 20262 > PCI: Failed to allocate resource 3 for Promise Technology, Inc. 20262 > > and a little later: > > PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 18 > PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode > PDC20262: IO baseregs (BIOS) are reported as MEM, report to <andre@suse.com> > PDC20262: inconsistent baseregs (BIOS) for port 0, skipping > PDC20262: IO baseregs (BIOS) are reported as MEM, report to <andre@suse.com> > PDC20262: inconsistent baseregs (BIOS) for port 1, skipping > PDC20262: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) > > > And then it can't mount root so it hangs (I copied the above by hand). I > don't believe this is a problem with the Promise card. If I use kernel 2.2.14 > w/IDE patches I get: > > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xfb690 > PCI: Using configuration type 2 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > PCI: Assigning I/O space 5800-5803 to device 00:18 > PCI: Assigning I/O space 5804-5807 to device 00:18 > > and a little later: > > PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 18 > PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6200-0x6207, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6208-0x620f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
First I want some Project Time over and above what the Time Committee will give (former astronomer) ;-).
However, Martin, what changed in the auto-assignment of IO-Space that does not get properly setup by the mainboard BIOS?
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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