I'm having problems with a Promise controller on my motherboard. Everything works fine until I plug a drive into it, which kinda defeats the purpose of having it on the motherboard. :)
In any case, it is 1GHz Athlon-C running Debian/sid. The motherboard is an Asus A7V133 with 768MB of RAM. It has a VIA Southbridge controlling hda-hdd, and a Promise PDC20265 controlling drives hde-hdh. I have 30GB drives on hda (Maxtor), hdc (Maxtor) and hde (Quantum), plus DVD drive on hdb and a cd-rw on hdd. I rebuilt the machine about 2 months ago, and as yet have had no success in getting the drive on the Promise controller to work. This worked on this same machine prior to the rebuild using 2.4.19. I have tried it with 2.4.18bf2.4 and 2.4.19. I have recompiled 2.4.19 several times trying different options. On boot, it gets as far as checking the drives and then locks hard: ide0 at 0x1f0-0xif7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0x9400-0x9407,0x9002 on ifq 10 hda: 60030432 sectors (30736 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3736/255/63 hdc: 60030432 sectors (30736 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=59554/16/63 In theory, it then scan hde, but the system freezes, and has to be cold booted. I have verified the kernel configs as well as packages (I built from the prior package lists, though there are a few differences due to the last rebuild being Jun, 1998). Can anyone help me out on getting this drive running? Regards, -- --Brad ============================================================================ Bradley M. Alexander | Debian Developer, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org ============================================================================ Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65 RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34 ============================================================================ The concept is simply staggering. Pointless, but staggering. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
