I've been playing with a Promise FastTrack RAID (IDE) controller with
3.0-current as of yesterday. Although it is recognised in the PCI bus
probe as a "Promise Ultra/33" (it has the same vendor/chip ID as the
non-RAID card), the probes in i386/isa/wd.c fail. I added some debugging
printfs to the
It seems David Dawes wrote:
> I've been playing with a Promise FastTrack RAID (IDE) controller with
> 3.0-current as of yesterday. Although it is recognised in the PCI bus
> probe as a "Promise Ultra/33" (it has the same vendor/chip ID as the
> non-RAID card), the probes in i386/isa/wd.c fail. I
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 01:21:03PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
>It seems David Dawes wrote:
>> I've been playing with a Promise FastTrack RAID (IDE) controller with
>> 3.0-current as of yesterday. Although it is recognised in the PCI bus
>> probe as a "Promise Ultra/33" (it has the same vendor/ch
It seems David Dawes wrote:
>
> That didn't improve things, but with the patch I got lots of messages
> like the following (for a disk attached to the onboard PIIX4):
>
> wd1: DMA failure, DMA status 0
>
> (The box isn't SMP.)
Hmm, and it is an uptodate -current system ??
Just use this part the
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:06:22PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:
>It seems David Dawes wrote:
>>
>> That didn't improve things, but with the patch I got lots of messages
>> like the following (for a disk attached to the onboard PIIX4):
>>
>> wd1: DMA failure, DMA status 0
>>
>> (The box isn't SMP
It seems David Dawes wrote:
>
> >> >I also run the card without its BIOS, as that tends to get in the way.
> >> >I think the FastTrack is just an Ultra/33 with another BIOS chip on it.
> >>
> >> I'll try pulling the BIOS tomorrow. We didn't get this card for it's
> >> RAID features anyway.
> >
>
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Søren Schmidt wrote:
[snip]
> Yep I know, the chipset on the Promise is not initialized to what the
> drives support then, its working in a slow (but always working though)
> mode. I did plan to change this, and even got the docs for the chips
> but it has sunken pretty low o
>I've been playing with a Promise FastTrack RAID (IDE) controller with
>3.0-current as of yesterday. Although it is recognised in the PCI bus
>probe as a "Promise Ultra/33" (it has the same vendor/chip ID as the
>non-RAID card), the probes in i386/isa/wd.c fail. I added some debugging
>printfs to
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:54:59PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>I've been playing with a Promise FastTrack RAID (IDE) controller with
>>3.0-current as of yesterday. Although it is recognised in the PCI bus
>>probe as a "Promise Ultra/33" (it has the same vendor/chip ID as the
>>non-RAID card), the
>>Errors in wdreset() for the Promise (at least for the Ultra/33)
>>probably mean that du->dk_altport is not initialized properly. (Setting
>>...
>
>There is a problem with the way du->dk_altport is set in wdattach. It
>is set correctly in wdprobe, but incorrectly in wdattach. The following
>pat
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