Re: [Sheflug] Promise ATA-100 controller.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> > >Good news: It Just Does.
> > > It Just Works.
> > >Plug it in. It will work.
> >
> >  I guess the message is that it'll just work :-)
> 
> Where did you get *that* idea from?!?! :)
> 
> >  I need to change my /etc/fstab settings, and I guess that's it. System is
> > running, althought I'm not using the card.
> 
> Yep. If the card's in, you should see the channels in /proc/..
> 
> > >Bad news: You get absolutely 0% benefit from ATA-100 as opposed your
> > >motherboard controller. 'Cept for the extra ide channels, if you need
> them.
> >
> > Extra channels are good. I'll be using them. I'll play with it. If there's
> no
> > extra speed it'll be a bit of a bummer tho' :-)
> 
> Nope, no extra speed whatsoever I'm afraid. Although, extra channels makes
> software RAID easier, so there is *some* extra speed available, just nothing
> related to ATA-100-ness :(


 Erm, nope...doesn't *just* work

 I'm trying to do this one drive at a time.

 I have two large drives - one (hda) with /boot, / and /home plus some
swap, and the other (hdb) contains /usr and more swap.
I've connected hdb to IDE1 on the new controller as hde
 I can get the Promise controller to recognise the drive (not very
hard), and during boot Linux picks up on ide0-ide3 channels as expected,
but when it comes to the partition check, hda goes fine and hde pauses,
then comes back with "lost interupt".

 It repeats this a few times, then continues to boot, which falls over
when the system attempts to mount swap (should be hde5 - I altered fstab
to reflect this, the same was done for the /usr partition).
 I'm then dumped to a maintainance prompt...

 I'm very, very glad that I asked about Vi not to long ago. Getting
Emacs when you have no /usr partition is kinda hard ;-)


 Baz. 
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