Re: [Sheflug] Promise ATA-100 controller.

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

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> >  It's in there, unless I messed up somewhere with the kernel rebuild -
> I'll
> > actually make the effort to do all the steps correctly tonite and see if
> it
> > makes any difference!
> >
> >  Are there any lilo arguments that need to be passed in the append line?
> 
> You can pass io= arguments, IIRC, but I don't think they should be needed.
> I've got Promise stuff myself, and Ultra66 being the nearest to what you
> have, and they've never needed it..
> 
> > My kernels are minimal only to the extent that if I don't need it, it
> doesn't
> > go
> > in. Nothing better.
> 
> Is there any motherboard chipset stuff that you need but haven't put in? It
> could conceivably be a problem related to IRQs, but not necessarily the new
> controller...

 Right, I've done a fresh kernel build (2.4.0-test12), and I'm still
getting the interupt lost error I was getting before.

 Call me silly, but am I missing something here?
All I've done to get the card running is:

 Plug it in and stick the drive my /usr partition resides on to it.
 Fire up the machine
 Rebuild the kernel to include support for the card (as far as I can
see)
 Reboot, expecting it to work.

I can post/mail my .config if need be.

 Help!

 Cheers.

 Baz.
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