Re: Problems with IDE - Ultra-ATA devices on a SiI chipset IDE controler

From: system_lists@nullzone.org
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 04:18:45 EST


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...
>

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