Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (470 mails)

[Joel Wiramu Pauling <aenertia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Related...

Via Arena has a kernel module (looks like just a 2.4 series type) for
the hardware raid... any idea's when or if this will be incorporated
into the 2.6 suse codebase patches??

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=297#raid

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 05:21, Jan wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> thank you for the hint on the known bug, however currently I already run 
> without any sata modules in initrd and use the /dev/hd* interface - and 
> still get kernel Oopses (but don't have the complete system freezing 
> anymore). When booting from DVD in recue mode, I have also been able to 
> access the VIA SATA interface through /dev/hda?, does that mean I must 
> not load the sata_via module in any way?
> 
> So, I understand this applies to all sata_* drivers!?
> 
> I have heard now, that this bug is fixed in the experimental (kraxel?) 
> kernel 2.6.5 - at least in a way that the system run stable when using 
> the old /dev/hd? interface.
> 
> During the installation (incl. successful online update), my yast2 
> set-up got corrupted (rpms verify OK though). Now I can not start any 
> yast2 modules anymore. Joel Wiramu Pauling describes a similar yet more 
> problem in an earlier email to suse-amd64. Any explanation how this 
> could have happened (and how it could be fixed)?
> 
> What would be your recommendation? Format-n-reinstall maybe with 
> different kernel-parameters? Or install experimental kernel. Which 
> on-board SATA controller should I use? I heard that Promise only 
> provides closed source modules?
> 
> Gruss,
> 
>     Jan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:09:25PM +0200, Jan Meyer wrote:
> > 
> >>recently I tried to install Suse v9.1-AMD64 on my Athlon64 machine with
> >>an MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R (MS-6702) board. [Kernel was updated to 2.6.4-54.5]
> > 
> > 
> > There is a known bug in the 9.1 kernel that can cause problems
> > when you have the sata_* driver loaded, but use the old style builtin
> > IDE driver (which uses /dev/hd*). The sata driver can subtly
> > corrupt the state of the IDE driver in some cases when it is loaded, 
> > which causes all kinds of strange problems later.
> > 
> > Workaround is to remove the sata driver from 
> > /etc/sysconfig/kernel:INITRD_MODULES and rebuild the initrd with 
> > /sbin/mkinitrd and reboot.
> > 
> > -Andi
> > 
>