I am haing identical probs. Have tried various kernel options, including the support for booting on off-board cards; ide=reverse; various bios configs such as dis/en-abling pnp etc... No luck. I've followed mini-howto on ultra66 - nothing seems to work. I also have winblows installed on a separate partition and it seems to boot find off of ultra66.
My setup: latest bios on abit be-6 secondary ide port has two cdroms attached to it nothing on on-board hpt controller and nothing on primary ide have three HDDs #1 on promise's ide1 and HDD #2,3 are on promise's ide2 the first HDD, first partition contains winblows, and third partition contains debian. I am not sure whether it is this setup that fails me miserably or the kernel or something else?! Any help/leads/painful memories - please, share! Paul On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:55:38AM -0500, Bradley Alexander wrote: > 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]
