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I have an IBM Server 300 (EISA/PCI) and want to install an eata
Smartcache III
Array controller.
System has an AHA 2742T as primary SCSI (slot 5)Card for Boot and CD
Rom.
The PM 2021 (slot3) has 16M Cache and Raid modules installed and 5 IBM
DPES 1080.
configured a 2disk raid 1 for swap and /usr and 3disk raid 5 for
anything else.
DPTMGR is set to Solaris as OS.

Now my experiences:
Suse 6.3 Boot detects the WD 1003 emulation on sec port
after detecting hdd 'irq probe failed' system freezes.
Tomsrtbt loads up, but eata driver freezes the system after
detecting eata(2) on 0x58cc (this should be the adaptec adress)

switching to the DPT as primary card,
suse boots up, but driver failes after trying to detect the secondary.

Any hints how to fix the problem?
Got the same configuration running NT on a SNI PCD-5T without any
problems.

Gereon Wenzel

PS: BTW does anybody know if DPT site is mirrored somewhere or
is adaptec the only site where I can find DPT stuff?

O.K. first part solved, IRQ 15 was mapped to PCI.
Tomsrtbt loads eata correct now, but isn't able to fdisk due to missing
partition table
SuSE detects the WD1003 emulation as hdc, hdd and occupies IRQ 15
eata load failes cause dev or resource busy.(irq15 is shown to be mapped
to ide1)
How to load from installdisk without ide probe?
is there any ide=noprobe?

Gereon Wenzel

Gereon Wenzel schrieb:

Quote:

> I have an IBM Server 300 (EISA/PCI) and want to install an eata
> Smartcache III
> Array controller.
> System has an AHA 2742T as primary SCSI (slot 5)Card for Boot and CD
> Rom.
> The PM 2021 (slot3) has 16M Cache and Raid modules installed and 5 IBM
> DPES 1080.
> configured a 2disk raid 1 for swap and /usr and 3disk raid 5 for
> anything else.
> DPTMGR is set to Solaris as OS.

> Now my experiences:
> Suse 6.3 Boot detects the WD 1003 emulation on sec port
> after detecting hdd 'irq probe failed' system freezes.
> Tomsrtbt loads up, but eata driver freezes the system after
> detecting eata(2) on 0x58cc (this should be the adaptec adress)

> switching to the DPT as primary card,
> suse boots up, but driver failes after trying to detect the secondary.

> Any hints how to fix the problem?
> Got the same configuration running NT on a SNI PCD-5T without any
> problems.

> Gereon Wenzel

> PS: BTW does anybody know if DPT site is mirrored somewhere or
> is adaptec the only site where I can find DPT stuff?

O.K. second stage reached.
I had to boot with LINUX ide1=noprobe

Now I can install SuSE but after reboot i get lots of file system
errors.

Gereon Wenzel

Gereon Wenzel schrieb:

Quote:

> O.K. first part solved, IRQ 15 was mapped to PCI.
> Tomsrtbt loads eata correct now, but isn't able to fdisk due to missing
> partition table
> SuSE detects the WD1003 emulation as hdc, hdd and occupies IRQ 15
> eata load failes cause dev or resource busy.(irq15 is shown to be mapped
> to ide1)
> How to load from installdisk without ide probe?
> is there any ide=noprobe?

> Gereon Wenzel

> Gereon Wenzel schrieb:

> > I have an IBM Server 300 (EISA/PCI) and want to install an eata
> > Smartcache III
> > Array controller.
> > System has an AHA 2742T as primary SCSI (slot 5)Card for Boot and CD
> > Rom.
> > The PM 2021 (slot3) has 16M Cache and Raid modules installed and 5 IBM
> > DPES 1080.
> > configured a 2disk raid 1 for swap and /usr and 3disk raid 5 for
> > anything else.
> > DPTMGR is set to Solaris as OS.

> > Now my experiences:
> > Suse 6.3 Boot detects the WD 1003 emulation on sec port
> > after detecting hdd 'irq probe failed' system freezes.
> > Tomsrtbt loads up, but eata driver freezes the system after
> > detecting eata(2) on 0x58cc (this should be the adaptec adress)

> > switching to the DPT as primary card,
> > suse boots up, but driver failes after trying to detect the secondary.

> > Any hints how to fix the problem?
> > Got the same configuration running NT on a SNI PCD-5T without any
> > problems.

> > Gereon Wenzel

> > PS: BTW does anybody know if DPT site is mirrored somewhere or
> > is adaptec the only site where I can find DPT stuff?