I have the exact same drive running on my Mandrake 7.1 system. In fact I even
had it running on a Pentium 133 for a little while before I had the money
together to upgrade the rest of my system.
I have tried the drive both with the controller you are using (built into an
ABIT BE6-II) and with a Promise controller on a 430VX based board and an ASUS
K7V w/o audio. Both of my experiences with the Promise controller have been
good ones. The biggest problem that I had was with the ASUS board where I had
to move the Promise controller to a different slot to clear up a conflict that
crippled my ability to use UDMA modes. This was not really do to the ASUS
board, but really to the way that Intel designed resource handling into the IBM
PC architecture. I mean from the modern day standpoint the whole architecture
is ass backwards including PCI. With the ABIT board it was designed such a way
so that I couldn't get a functional configuration (unless I somehow managed to
miss the one stripped down config that would work right) that didn't also
conflict with the the integrated Ultra66 controller. In certain configurations
I could get a drive to be recognized, but I couldn't get UDMA to work.
One thing to consider is that I have noticed that explicitly defining ide2 and
ide3 is not necessary with Mandrake 7.1 with the HPT366 and the Promise Ultra66
controllers. If anything it gets in the way when you are hunting around for a
configuration that doesn't conflict with something on the motherboard (m/b) or
moving from one m/b to the next. Taking out those setting is what made it easy
for me to move from a P133 to a BE6-II m/b to an ASUS m/b (which I'm living on
now).
A second thing to consider is that if there is a conflict, having default
settings in mdk 7.1 set to fully optimize disk access will cause more problems
then with it turned off. It doesn't look like your machine does that in the
sections of the startup log that you gave me (I noticed that you cut out a
section, but it is something to check for. Going down this path it also would
be a good idea to try another device like your DVD-ROM on the controller.
It looks like you may have a bum disk, but it is always a good idea to check all
other possibilities before bringing it back.
To give you an idea of what it looks like when things are happy here is my
/var/log/dmesg file:
Linux version 2.2.15-4mdksecure ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 SMP Wed May 10 14:16:48 CEST 2000
Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes.
Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 4096 bytes.
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (002ce000)
Detected 800043829 Hz processor.
ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-floppy
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1595.80 BogoMIPS
Memory: 256748k/262080k available (1320k kernel code, 424k reserved, 2972k data,
152k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 100.00 usecs.
CPU0: AMD AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 01
SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Setting commenced=1, go go go
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0880
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.12)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VT 82C691 Apollo Pro
Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 50
PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8800-0x8807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x8808-0x880f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
hda: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hde: IBM-DTTA-371010, ATA DISK drive
hdg: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xa000-0xa007,0x9802 on irq 10
ide3 at 0x9400-0x9407,0x9002 on irq 10
hde: IBM-DTTA-371010, 9641MB w/465kB Cache, CHS=19590/16/63
hdg: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=89355/16/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 1858.518 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 2330.958 MB/sec
8regs : 1075.563 MB/sec
32regs : 932.307 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (2330.958 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hde: hde1 hde4 < hde5 hde6 hde7 >
hdg: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hdg1
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
Checking ReiserFS transaction log (device 21:07) ...
Replayed 0 transactions in 0 seconds
ReiserFS core development sponsored by SuSE Labs (suse.com)
Journaling sponsored by MP3.com
Item handlers sponsored by Ecila.com
ReiserFS version 3.5.19
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed
Adding Swap: 261536k swap-space (priority -1)
Checking ReiserFS transaction log (device 21:06) ...
Replayed 0 transactions in 0 seconds
ReiserFS version 3.5.19
Checking ReiserFS transaction log (device 22:01) ...
Replayed 0 transactions in 0 seconds
ReiserFS version 3.5.19
