Re: AEC6280 problem at boot
On 2/6/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 18:13 +0100, Kaspar Fischer wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I have installed an
> >
> > Acard AEC-6280M (Version 2.16)
> >
> > PCI-to-IDE extension card into one of my mac's PCI slots.
> > However, when I boot Debian Linux 2.6.8-powerpc, the
> > following message shows up.
> >
> > Wait for ready failed before probe !
> > hde: lost interrupt
> >
> > (I am sorry that I cannot reproduce the error verbatim;
> > I have a huge number of Firewire-related error messages
> > so that dmesg skips the beginning of the boot messages.)
> >
> > Does anybody know what the above lost interrupt/failure
> > means and how I can fix it?
>
> This card needs a patch to work properly... ask Thibaut VARENE
> <T-Bone@parisc-linux.org>. I suppose that patch could be included in
> Debian kernel...
It's been included in current git tree and will show in 2.6.16. You
can find it here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=113128446708744&q=p3
I suppose it would probably be a good idea to backport it to debian's
2.6.15 which is (iirc) scheduled to be the kernel shipped with etch...
Besides, it's quite a simple patch.
HTH
--
Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
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