9017 – Promise onboard chipset not enabled due to error in kernel

Bug 9017 - Promise onboard chipset not enabled due to error in kernel

Summary: Promise onboard chipset not enabled due to error in kernel

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Release Media
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Tobias Eichert

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Reported:	2002-10-11 08:22 UTC by Gert-Jan Rodenburg
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Gert-Jan Rodenburg 2002-10-11 08:22:10 UTC

Hi,

There is an (acknowledged) error in the 2.4.19 kernel that prohibits the use of 
the promise ATA133 RAID chipset as found on some Motherboards (MSI KT3 Ultra 
Aru, to name one, mine).

There is an acknowledgement of this error on the kernel mailing list, will add 
references later.

This bug makes it inpossible to install Gentoo on a RAID only system from the 
live-cd.

Will post further details later.

Comment 1 Gert-Jan Rodenburg 2002-10-11 12:58:17 UTC

Affected Promise Chip: RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20276 IDE (rev 01)  Thread on LKML where this problem is being discussed: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0207.2/0372.html  The fix that is talked about, (changing a ifdef to ifndef) worked for me, but I had to boot from a Gentoo 1.2 cd to install.

Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-16 23:12:58 UTC

Thank you very much for this bug report. It will be fixed in the final 1.4 release.

Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-22 00:54:27 UTC

Hey viz, can you get this fix into our kernel for me? Thanks :)

Comment 4 Tobias Eichert 2002-12-22 10:51:28 UTC

Hello,
this should be fixed in Linux Kernel 2.4.20:

From the Changelog of Linux 2.4.20:

"<marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva>:
o Do not skip Promise ataraid's: they used to work fine with pdcraid"

Comment 5 Michiel de Bruijne 2002-12-25 00:42:30 UTC

Hi, 
 
This is the same report as bug 8163 ,since the 2002122300 LiveCD this has been 
solved. I have exactly the same motherboard and I can confirm that it's working 
perfectly. This bug can be closed

Comment 6 Tobias Eichert 2002-12-25 07:57:24 UTC

Thanks. Closing bug now.