Stephen,
I tried the same thing from the mini and it didn't then I found instructions
at this web site:
http://www.linux.ucla.edu/pipermail/linux/2000-May/003326.html
Yes it is the numbers in [ ] which you add the 2 to. The mini is either
dead wrong or just very confusing.
Michael
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote:
> Michael McLeod wrote:
> >
> >I have just been working with an Ultra 66 and an upgrade of 6.0 to 6.2
> and
> >based on what I have been doing your ide2=..... and ide3=..... are
> wrong. I
> >think they should be " ide2=0x78d0, 0x78d3 ide3=0x78c4, 0x78c7.
> Maybe
> >this will help.
>
> I don't understand this. According to the Ultra DMA HowTo, the formula
> is:
>
> RAID bus interface: Promise Technology Unknown device (rev 1).
> Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d33.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32.
> I/O at 0xe000. (a)
> I/O at 0xd804. (b)
> I/O at 0xd400. (c)
> I/O at 0xd004. (d)
> I/O at 0xc800. (e)
>
> and pass "ide2=a,b+2 ide3=c,d+2" as a command line parameter to the
> kernel.
>
> My table is:
>
> Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
> Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device
> (rev 1).
> Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d38.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 14. Master Capable. Latency=64.
> I/O at 0x78d0 [0x78d1].
> I/O at 0x78c4 [0x78c5].
> I/O at 0x78c8 [0x78c9].
> I/O at 0x78c0 [0x78c1].
> I/O at 0x7880 [0x7881].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebc0000 [0xfebc0000].
>
> So, following the formula:
>
> a = 0x78d0
> b = 0x78c4 + 2 = 0x78c6
> c = 0x78c8
> d = 0x78c0 + 2 = 0x78c2
>
> It appears to me that you've considered the bracketed numbers [0x78d1]
> as b and [0x78c5] as d.
>
> Don't misunderstand me. I'm not arguing and I'm certainly going to give
> your suggestion a go. I'm just trying to understand where I got it
> wrong.
> --
> Steve
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