Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:43:16 -0400 | From | Stuffed Crust <> | Subject | 2.4.19-rc3-ac2 I2O (Promise SX6000) funkiness |
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I'm trying to use a Promise SX6000 board. This one has a 128 meg stick on it, and five 120 gig drives in a RAID5 configuration.
The array is created and initialized fine (save the 12 hours or so of incessant beeping by the card..)
I fire up the i2o_pci and i2o_block modules and the card and its array are detected:
I2O Core - (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software I2O: Event thread created as pid 9 I2O configuration manager v 0.04. (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software Linux I2O PCI support (c) 1999 Red Hat Software. i2o: Checking for PCI I2O controllers... PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:07.2 i2o: I2O controller on bus 0 at 137. i2o: PCI I2O controller at 0xDA000000 size=4194304 I2O: Promise workarounds activated. I2O: MTRR workaround for Intel i960 processor i2o/iop0: Installed at IRQ10 i2o: 1 I2O controller found and installed. Activating I2O controllers... This may take a few minutes if there are many devices i2o/iop0: Reset rejected, trying to clear i2o/iop0: LCT has 9 entries. i2o/iop0: Configuration dialog desired. I2O Block Storage OSM v0.9 (c) Copyright 1999-2001 Red Hat Software. i2o_block: registered device at major 80 i2o_block: Checking for Boot device... i2o_block: Checking for I2O Block devices... i2ob: Installing tid 11 device at unit 0 i2o/hda: Max segments 28, queue depth 8, byte limit 49152. i2o/hda: Type 68: 468987MB, 512 byte sectors. i2o/hda: Maximum sectors/read set to 96. i2o/hda: i2o/hda1
So now it's time to create a filesystem.
mke2fs -j -m -0 /dev/i2o/hda1
It starts out fine, then the console starts spewing these messages after about 30/2664 inode tables.
i2o/iop0: No handler for event (0x00000020) i2o/iop0: No handler for event (0x00000020) i2o/iop0: No handler for event (0x00000020) i2o/iop0: No handler for event (0x00000020) i2o/iop0: No handler for event (0x00000020) ...
After I break out of mke2fs, the errors continue for a while, then change to:
i2o/iop0: Hardware Failure: Unknown Error i2o/iop0: Hardware Failure: Unknown Error i2o/iop0: Hardware Failure: Unknown Error ... i2o_post_wait event completed after timeout. i2o_post_wait event completed after timeout. i2o_post_wait event completed after timeout. ... i2ob_release: controller rejected unclaim.
This happens with 2.4.19rc2aa1 SMP, 2.4.19rc3aa1 SMP. It also happens with 2.4.19rc3ac2 SMP (with noapic+nosmp, as I have the endless APIC Error bug with that kernel) And finally, it happens on the "stock" RedHat 2.4.18-5 Uniprocessor kernel.
So, can anyone tell me what's going on here? Is the controller on the fritz? Is the host PC all screwed up? (memtest86 says the RAM is likely fine; though the SX6000 provides no means for me to verify it on the card itself)
FWIW, this is a newer SX6000 with PDC20276 chips on it, and it's sharing IRQ10 with the usb controller. Disabling it makes no difference.
Further details can be provided upon request...
I can move the controller to another machine this weekend for further testing. But in the mean time, Just what is event 0x00000020?
I suppose I can call up Promise, but as their driver won't even compile, I don't have much faith in their ability to do anything but shave a couple of hours off of my life.
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