Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stuart Inglis" <> | Subject | RE: Upgraded from 2.2.5 (RH6) to 2.3.18---ATAPI CD-ROM freezesmachine while booting | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:09:49 +1200 |
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> Where is the device, what is it, also the interface type by chipset and > mainboard.
This is Dell optiplex 590/Pentium 90Mhz 32Mb RAM.. here some info when it's running 2.2.5.
[internz@escher internz]$ cat /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 General information: Chip NCR53C810, device id 0x1, revision id 0x2 IO port address 0xfd00, IRQ number 11 Using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0xc2810f00 Synchronous period factor 25, max commands per lun 32 Profiling information: num_trans = 22471 num_kbytes = 118734 num_disc = 34794 num_break = 580 num_int = 602 num_fly = 22471 ms_setup = 4700 ms_data = 80330 ms_disc = 206300 ms_post = 1650
[internz@escher internz]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31230N Rev: 0510 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
[root@escher /root]# cat /proc/ide/hda/identify [root@escher /root]# cat /proc/ide/hda/driver ide-cdrom version 4.53 [root@escher /root]# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings name value min max mode ---- ----- --- --- ---- breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw dsc_overlap 0 0 1 rw file_readahead 124 0 2097151 rw io_32bit 0 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw max_kb_per_request 64 1 127 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w slow 0 0 1 rw unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw using_dma 0 0 1 rw [root@escher /root]# cat /proc/ide/hda/model GCD-R542B
[root@escher /root]# cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82434LX Mercury/Neptune (rev 17). Slow devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Bus 0, device 4, function 0: VGA compatible controller: ATI 210888GX (rev 1). Medium devsel. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000 [0x40000000]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Non-VGA device: Intel 82375EB (rev 3). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=248. Bus 0, device 12, function 0: Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 (rev 5). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 15. Master Capable. Late ncy=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x3efff000 [0x3efff008]. I/O at 0xffe0 [0xffe1]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x3ee00000 [0x3ee00000]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: SCSI storage controller: NCR 53c810 (rev 2). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xfd00 [0xfd01]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x3efeff00 [0x3efeff00].
[root@escher /root]# cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 29 fb 36 netlink 128 ptm 136 pts
Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 8 sd 9 md
[root@escher /root]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name
8 0 1034930 sda 8 1 964658 sda1 8 2 1 sda2 8 5 66464 sda5 3 0 1073741823 hda
Wow, that's a lot of blocks for a CD-ROM ! :-)
[root@escher /root]# cat /proc/version (default RH6) Linux version 2.2.5-15smp (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 SMP Mon Apr 19 22:03:51 EDT 1999
[root@escher /root]# cat /proc/modules eepro100 12272 1 (autoclean) ncr53c8xx 52752 2
Hope this helps...
cheers Stuart
> > > I suppose I know what causes the bug in 2.2.5, namely our > > > old enemy probe_cmos_for_drives(). > > > This has always been a strange, buggy routine, but long ago > > > it bit fewer people, because not so many people had both IDE > > > and SCSI on one machine. > > > > > > Please try to disable probe_cmos_for_drives() > > > (by replacing the #ifdef __i386__ at the start by #if 0). > > > and report on whether 2.2.5 and 2.3.18 show improvement. > > > > I don't have the source to 2.2.5 handy and since 2.3.18 is the only one > > crashing I made the change you suggested in 2.3.18. > Unfortunately it made no > > difference and the boot process halts at the same place. > > > > cheers > > Stuart > > >
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