https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268
Product: Hardware
Component: Hardware
Summary: PDC20276 doesn't detect drives during install
Version: 9.1-0.1mdk
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: P2
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This sorta works in 9.0, but not 9.1. I JUST bought an Asus A7V333 with onboad RAID,
using the Promise Fasttrack 133 Lite - PDC20276 chip.
When installing Mandrake 9.0, I can see both drives in the mirror, but not with MDK
9.1b3.
Mandrake 9.0 dmesg during install shows:
PDC20276: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 30
PCI: Found IRQ 7 for ddevice 00:06.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 7 with 00:09.0
PDC20276: chipset revision 1
PDC20276: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLES Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode
With Mandrake 9.1b3, I get the following from dmesg during install:
PDC20276: IDE controller at PCI slot 0:06.0
PDC20276: chipset revision 1
PDC20276: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20276: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
I moved the HD to the 'regular' onboard controller, and successfully installed
Mandrake 9.1b3. I then downloaded the current cooker kernel source from rpmfind.net,
linux-2.4.21pre4-1. I set CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y (which in the menu basically says
"use FastTrack"), and built ATARAID into the kernel.
I changed lilo/fstab to mount /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1 instead of /dev/hda1, rehooked
/dev/hda1 to the RAID (It's just RAID 0), duped the disk to /dev/hdc within the
FastTrak BIOS. I'm now booting off my Mirrored Array - Master 0 became /dev/hda when
the driver recognized the drives on the PDC20276 controller - whew!
(/dev/ataraid/disc0/part1).
Is it possible to allow the user to choose ataraid (assuming the driver loads
properly) for the root disk? Selecting the ataraid module in the Mandrake 9.0 install
didn't produce a /dev/ataraid during install to install to, and ataraid didn't show up
in lsmod (but I didn't spend more than a single boot looking at that)
I'm not sure why the install kernel can't find the drives, while the kernel I compiled
could. But here's your bug report :)
If necessary, I can provide a diff of my kernel config, and the .config that came with
the kernel-source rpm, but AFAICS, the only real change is the
CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y.
Rick
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