On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Scott M. Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > It may not be related, but out of five boot attempts, only one got past
> >the IDE driver stage(ie, below from 2.4.2 :
> > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> > VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
> > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> > idebus=xx
> > VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 23) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA)
> >
> > I've had 2.4.2 running great for the past 10 days. Need any more info?
>
> I'd love to hear anything you can come up with. What's the next step in
> your boot process, ie what's the part that normally shows up but doesn't
> with 2.4.2-ac12? Is this using IDE-SCSI, for example?
>
> One thing that both 2.4.3-pre3 and -ac12 do is to not have allocate a
> result buffer for TEST_UNIT_READY. I don't see why that should matter,
> but can you try un-doing the patch to "scsi_error.c" and see if that
> makes a difference. I'm worried about this report, and the buslogic
> corruption thing..
>
> Justin: there's another "2.4.3-pre2 corrupts all disks on a buslogic
> controller" report. The interesting part is that 2.4.3-pre2 doesn't
> actually contain any buslogic changes. The only generic-scsi changes
> were yours. Ideas?
>
> Linus
>
Just trying 2.4.3-pre2 now. It appears to be working fine. I used the
same config from my ac11-12 attempts. My systems problem with ac11-12 must
not be something common between them. Hope this helps.
Scott
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