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Re: [PLUG] Board not recognized at boot
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Would this matter if the root filesystem was not on the drives/interface
in question. As you can see from dmesg these drives are not even
partitioned/formated. My files and boot are on a PATA attached drive on a
different interface and they work fine.
Doug
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Lee Marzke wrote:
> Doug,
>
> Just a guess, If you rebuild the module and you need it at boot, then
> you might
> have to update the initrd image. man mkinitrd.
>
> Make sure you backup your existing initrd.
>
> Lee Marzke
>
> Doug Crompton wrote:
>
> >I have a promise SATA add-on 4 port with two 250gb drives attached. Yes I
> >know promise is not a favorite but it does have a driver and does work.
> >
> >At boot the board is not configured nor the drives recognized. lsmod shows
> >sata_promise was loaded and other dependencies for it.
> >
> >If I modprobe -r sata_promise then immediately modprobe sata_promise the
> >board and the drives are registered and availalbe. dmesg shows this.
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >libata version 1.12 loaded.
> >sata_promise: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> >sata_promise version 1.02
> >ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 9 (level, low)
> >-> IRQ 9
> >ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8200 ctl 0xE12E8238 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
> >ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8280 ctl 0xE12E82B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
> >ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8300 ctl 0xE12E8338 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
> >ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8380 ctl 0xE12E83B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
> >ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> >scsi0 : sata_promise
> >ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023
> >88:407f
> >ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: lba48
> >ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
> >scsi1 : sata_promise
> >ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> >scsi2 : sata_promise
> >ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023
> >88:407f
> >ata4: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: lba48
> >ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
> >scsi3 : sata_promise
> > Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JS-00M Rev: 02.0
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> >SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
> >SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> >SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
> >SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> > sda: unknown partition table
> >Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> > Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JS-00M Rev: 02.0
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> >SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
> >SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
> >SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
> >SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
> > sdb: unknown partition table
> >Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> >Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
> >Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >What would cayse the system to not recognize the drives when the module is
> >loaded at boot vs. my manually unloading and reloading?
> >
> >I had rebuilt this module after making a minor mod. but the new code does
> >work, just not at boot.
> >
> >The system is SUSE10 kernel 2.6
> >
> >Doug
> >
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> >
> >
>
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* Doug Crompton *
* Richboro, PA 18954 *
* 215-431-6307 *
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* doug@crompton.com *
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