Problem with SUSE 9.1 Promise disk ctr in IDE mode.
Hello All,
It has the Promise Fastrack but it is disabled, but I still get the
message about warning about HD Raid not supported in the 2.6.X kernels. I
have other OS's like Free BSD, UnixWare, OpenServer, and windows various
versions that all work with out any problem. I am not using this RAID so
things should work. 9.0 worked and it also was not using any RAID. 9.1
wheter a new install, upgraded 9.0 all fail and nothing else can be
mounted. I really think my problem is with Linux thinking I am using the
Promise sued RAID that really isn't RAID. If I want RAID I would use
Linux Software RAID on my laptop. I have tried 8 different HD. One I
install on a Regular PC Desktop and was working just fine till I moved it
back to my Laptop. The only real failure is Linux thinking it has a RAID
when it does not and then 9.1 is unable to mount any partitions. What is
strange is my SuSE 9.1 CD's are able to mount all the partitions just fine
and see them all. It also adds them to fstab but then fails once I boot
off the newly installed 9.1 with the RAID failure message.
demsg gives the following.
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2060-0x2067, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2068-0x206f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: TOSHIBA MK8025GAS, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
PDC20265: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:03:02.0
PDC20265: chipset revision 2
PDC20265: 100% native mode on irq 19
PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x4400-0x4407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x4408-0x440f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB), CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hda2:
On Mon October 18 2004 5:12 pm, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Hello All,
It has the Promise Fastrack but it is disabled, but I still get the message about warning about HD Raid not supported in the 2.6.X kernels. I have other OS's like Free BSD, UnixWare, OpenServer, and windows various versions that all work with out any problem. I am not using this RAID so things should work. 9.0 worked and it also was not using any RAID. 9.1 wheter a new install, upgraded 9.0 all fail and nothing else can be mounted. I really think my problem is with Linux thinking I am using the Promise sued RAID that really isn't RAID.
snip < Any Ideas?
Thanks, Boyd Gerber
I have one of these Promise "RAID" controllers too. To utilize the hard drives on the controller in my system they must have Promise's RAID stamp/signature on them or they are unusable by any OS. That is what SUSE detects to give the warning message in 9.1. I do manual installs and make sure that both pdcraid and acaraid are NOT loaded and all is fine - for me and my system. I still get that annoying message about a RAID array being detected and unusable but it is safe, for me, to ignore and proceed. One theory I haven't tried is leaving acaraid installed to see if the warning messages stop. The pdcraid driver is never up to date and, as far as I've bothered to test, it doesn't work anyway. Stan
Hi All, The below did sovle the problem with the system with the Promise card but did not work on another system without a Promise card having the exact same problem. It does not have any RAID as well. I have 1 system working and 7 that do not all with the exact same errors. They all have different Mother Boards (Giga Byte, Asus, Elite Group,...). The only common is the either had Intel with HT or AMD athlon. I will report back once I have more information. But this did work on the Promise card system. So if some one else can search the archive for Promise and find this. Thanks, On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, SRGlasoe wrote:
On Mon October 18 2004 5:12 pm, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Hello All,
It has the Promise Fastrack but it is disabled, but I still get the message about warning about HD Raid not supported in the 2.6.X kernels. I have other OS's like Free BSD, UnixWare, OpenServer, and windows various versions that all work with out any problem. I am not using this RAID so things should work. 9.0 worked and it also was not using any RAID. 9.1 wheter a new install, upgraded 9.0 all fail and nothing else can be mounted. I really think my problem is with Linux thinking I am using the Promise sued RAID that really isn't RAID.
snip < Any Ideas?
Thanks, Boyd Gerber
I have one of these Promise "RAID" controllers too. To utilize the hard drives on the controller in my system they must have Promise's RAID stamp/signature on them or they are unusable by any OS. That is what SUSE detects to give the warning message in 9.1.
I do manual installs and make sure that both pdcraid and acaraid are NOT loaded and all is fine - for me and my system. I still get that annoying message about a RAID array being detected and unusable but it is safe, for me, to ignore and proceed.
One theory I haven't tried is leaving acaraid installed to see if the warning messages stop. The pdcraid driver is never up to date and, as far as I've bothered to test, it doesn't work anyway.
Stan
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