From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271177AbTGWJDf (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:03:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271178AbTGWJDf (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:03:35 -0400 Received: from 69.Red-217-126-207.pooles.rima-tde.net ([217.126.207.69]:16398 "EHLO server01.nullzone.prv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271177AbTGWJDe (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:03:34 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20030723111733.00c40870@192.168.2.130> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:18:45 +0200 To: David Zaffiro From: system_lists@nullzone.org Subject: Re: Problems with IDE - Ultra-ATA devices on a SiI chipset IDE controler Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3F1D232B.2050200@netscape.net> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030721173557.00d56450@192.168.2.130> <5.2.1.1.2.20030721173557.00d56450@192.168.2.130> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello David, thanks for the reply! As its a production server im not using any power management as you said. Thanks again. Regards At 13:42 22/07/2003 +0200, David Zaffiro wrote: >> I have a production server with a SiI680 pci device being used as a >> IDE controller. >> Connected to the external IDE controller I have 4 120GB IDE disks >> just in raid5 Linux-software mode. >>Well, I have detected some problems that i cannot understand (I am not a >>expert so ... :-( ) ... >>( I was using a HighPoint some time ago which gave me the same problems. > >Some time ago, I've had the same problem booting gentoo-1.4-rc2 with my >Promise PDC20276, I had to append "acpi=off", otherwise the kernel-image >of the cdrom suffered from the same problems... Maybe that'll help to get >your production-server back online? >However, I couldn't determine whether you are using ACPI, perhaps not. >Personally, I wouldn't choose to use power-management (neither apm nor >acpi) on a server in the first place, but that's just me... >