On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:54, Jessica Blank wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:48, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > > > These messages weren't FROM the boot. I already tried compiling the > > > ide-disk and ide-mod modules into the kernel... they did not work. So, > > > getting sick and tired of rebooting the machine around 50 times, I decided > > > to compile them as modules, so I could quickly work on them, insmod them > > > and rmmod them. > > > > IDE as module is known brain dead. Compile them on in the kernel and > > send me the whole dmesg output with the ide-disk compile in. > > Gyaah. Round and round and round we go... ^_^;;; > > Oh, another thing that pisses me off about 2.4.20.. WHERE THE HELL DID > THEY PUT HFS SUPPORT!?!??! I cannot find the HFS option ANYWHERE under > Filesystems. I CAN find it on 2.2.25... what's wrong with this picture!? I > KNOW the driver is in there; I see hfs.c... but I don't see the config > option.
Hrm... It seem to be here... You may need CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL > Ben, hopefully your patch will fix this annoyance. I'm sure it will, no? > :) > > > > > > > > This is very frustrating. > > > > > > > > > > And yes, I have already checked the connections to the disk. They are > > > > > fine. :) > > > > > > > > Can you send me the complete dmesg log along with the version of the > > > > kernel you are using ? > > > > > > > > > > 2.4.20 and... the dmesg is attached. Also, below (in case y'all wanna read > > > it inline). NOTE: Again, I compiled ide-mod and ide-disk AS MODULES after > > > getting SICK AND TIRED OF REBOOTING since compiling them into the kernel > > > itself didn't work either... at the end of this log, you can see the > > > output generated by me insmodding ide-mod and then ide-disk, twice. As you > > > can see, ide-mod seems to see the controller (it's a Promise Ultra > > > DMA/33) but no disks, and ide-disk doesn't seem to do anything useful at > > > all... > > > > Can you try my patches ? (2.4.20-ben10 patch available on kernel.org) > > and send me a log with those ? > > > > Certainly! I'd love to. What directory izzit? Can you provide a full URL? pub/linux/kernel/people/benh, then get the -ben10 patch against 2.4.20 > I remember you; I used your kernel on my G4 Cube way back when. You rule. > :) Heh, well, I'm the maintainer for the PowerMac support, so there are great chances my kernels work better than standard ones on those machines ;) Though I'm trying to sync regulary with the official tree. Cheers, Ben.
