2.4.20 Promise IDE RAID Locks up (gcc 3.2.1!)
Hey there,
I compiled 2.4.20 on gentoo 1.4rc2 (gcc 3.2.1). When emerging (compiling) X my system often gives compile errors which I don't get on the second go, I either get others or my system locks up. When the system locks up, and rebooting with reset the IDE RAID controller where the disc I'm using under linux is on is messed up. (In my case the disc is on the secondary IDE controller). The controller will not find any disks on that controller on reboot, the other one works fine. I have to power down before it will find them again.
Also, probably unrelevant but I'd like to see if some other people have experience with it and this might be a good place to look :-), I tried compiling the module promise releases (it's sort of like the nVidia NVdriver module) but it locks up my system after the banner (this was against 2.4.20xfs_pre2, the kernel used with the gentoo 1.4rc2). If anyone has any experience with their module I'd like to hear their experiences with it.
Kind regards,
Ferry van Steen
Oh, the controller is a MBFastTrak133 Lite onboard on a MSI KT3 Ultra2-R.
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I compiled 2.4.20 on gentoo 1.4rc2 (gcc 3.2.1). When emerging (compiling) X my system often gives compile errors which I don't get on the second go, I
See the sig 11 questions in the FAQs on Linux. 99 out of 100 times that kind of random gcc works, then it doesn't is bad RAM.
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One more ques... They told me they can't release open-source because it would make them lose their intellectual property. I was just thinking, if you build hardware, especially RAID controllers, doesn't that mean you sort-of bought a software RAID solution? That is, if their intellectual property is that much in their software? I feel like I might as well have gotten me a great linux supported IDE controller and use software RAID on it...
The analysis people (notably Arjan) have done strongly suggests that they licensed their software raid stuff from someone as HPT and Promise use a layout with a tiny mod, almost as if designed to be incompatible.
The big problem with raid people (hardware included) is that they want desperately to keep their format controlled so that they can lock users into their controllers unless the user is willing to do a full backup and restore. In the hardware case people tend not to realise so much that is all.
Alan