I have had no data corruption under 2000 I have had over 300gig of rars all
sfv checked with NO problems.
I installed SUSE 7.1 and it seemes to be working, no boot problems or
lockups or random crashing, but it still only sees the first channel.
>From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "ISU COMPU DUDE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [newbie] MSI694D - Promise FastTrak 66/100 -- Failure --
>Lockup !
>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:06:26 -0700
>
>On Wednesday 16 May 2001 17:11, ISU COMPU DUDE wrote:
> > I have a MSI 694D motherboard with onboard VIA 686a chipset ide
>controller
> > and Promise FastTrak 100 w/ lite bios. I also have a Promise FastTrak 66
> > with full bios.
> >
> > I am trying to use Mandrake 8.0
> >
> > I have 5 hd's and a cdrom all set to master.
> > 20gig onboard VIA ide channel 1
> > cdrom onboard VIA ide channel.2
> > 40gig onboard fastrack channel 1
> > 40gig onboard fastrack channel 2
> > 30gig on pci fastrack channel 1
> > 30gig on pci fastrack channel 2
> >
> > If I have all drives hooked up and boot the cd the cd hangs affter it
> > detects hda and hdc the pdc driver in the kernel only sees 1 channel on
>the
> > 2 promise cards.
> >
> > If I unplug the cables from the drives on the promise cards I can boot
>the
> > cd and install.
> >
> > after installing I can plug the cables back in and see 1 40gig and 1
>30gig
> > drive but I get random lockups. (do I need to recompile the kernel???)
> >
> > I have tried changing the way the drives are in the promise bios (1
>drive
> > stripe, 2 drive stripe, 2 drive mirror, etc) with no different results.
> >
> > My guess is that the kernel module needs some parameter passed to it to
>see
> > the second channel on the promise controllers, but I don't know what to
>do.
> >
> > I have searched and searched on the net for answers and put my problem
>into
> > mandrake expert but still no answers.
> >
> > If someone could help me I would appreciate it much! I don't want to
> > install windows again just to use my drives.
>
>
>Massive data corruption cross-channel on ide occurs with win2K and many
>versions of linux with the VIA 686x chipset. First, before anything else,
>update your BIOS. VIA has been working with motherboard manufacturers to
>correct this _hardware_ bug by setting up IDE a bit differently thus
>eliminating the logic race condition.
>
>Second, there is a good possibility that the install kernel and the boot
>kernel see your drives at different locations. I expect a fix will be
>available early next week for that.
>
>Third, it may be that the Promise controllers actually do share an
>interrupt
>in which case there is little or nothing to be gained by having every
>device
>on a primary channel, and no performance hit would ensue from simplifying
>your hardware to the on-board plus ONE Promise controller.
>
>Civileme
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