Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 11:02:39 -0800 From: ONE-MO <onemo@jps.net> To: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq ida driver patch Message-ID: <36B9EECF.DB2F9F08@jps.net> References: <36B8DA72.F58BB5D1@jps.net> <36B956B7.4299FC0@doc.ic.ac.uk> <199902041438.JAA44908@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>
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I booted a 2.2.7 ida install floppy and checked the device settings there. It
showed the port at 0x0 so I tried that and it detected the actual port of
0x1000. I tried kernel configs with both 0x0 and 0x1000, either way I still
can't access with 3.0-based utils. I am able to access it and setup a filesystem
on it using the 2.2.7 floppy - but booting back to 3.0, I get the same lock
trying to mount the fs.
This definately appears to be a 3.0 issue. I'll check the commit logs later
today and see if I can track any changes to the wd driver, since the ida still
cuckoos it.
Thanks for the help, I too can play a bit on my machine - unfortunately, I'm not
really a C programmer.... more like a blind hacker wannabe ;^)
MO!
"Viren R. Shah" wrote:
> >>>>> "MD" == Mark Dawson <md@doc.ic.ac.uk> writes:
>
> MD> ONE-MO,
> >> I finally get the thing probed correctly - I specified port 0x0 in my
>
> You had to specify port 0x0 ??? What is the real port that it is at?
> also, what are the exact probe lines from dmesg? Mine wouldn't work
> correctly unless I specified the exact port. You should also be able
> to look at the EISA config on your machine BIOS (or using the floopy
> that must have come along with any EISA machine), and find out what
> resources are being used by each device.
>
> MD> The fact that you had to do this indicates to me that the EISA probe
> MD> code in the driver has not migrated happily to 3.0 from 2.2.x. Perhaps
> MD> someone who is familiar with changes in this area can take a quick look
> MD> and advise you (and me) if there are obvious problems with it.
>
> That's probably true.
>
> MD> I'm afraid I haven't migrated my systems to 3.0 and I no longer have any
> MD> EISA cards to experiment with.
>
> If anyone has the knowhow, but not the hardware, I'll be willing to
> work on the driver under tutelage (so to speak). My machine at home is
> not critical to me right now, so messing with the ida driver is ok.
>
> MD> Mark
>
> Viren
> --
> Viren R. Shah, {viren @ rstcorp . com} http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah/
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