promise fasttrak module problem

whysyn · 06-22-2003, 11:41 PM

Hello.

Please forgive me, I may not be a Linux newbie, but usually these thing work and I don't have to tear them apart...

I have a new Promise FastTrack TX2000 IDE RAID card. I have downloaded their (proprietary) open source driver, and I'm having some trouble making it work.

I am running a Slackware 9.0 install, updated with the 2.4.21 kernel.

I keep getting "depmod: *** Unresolved symbols" messages when I try to test the compiled driver. I think I'm on to something here, when I change the compiler flags, I don't get as many unresolved symbols. Here is a copy of my compiler flags and the resulting depmod output:

Very Bad...

Code:

INDEP386= -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing
-fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586
-DMODULE

Produces this:

Code:

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/scsi/FastTrak.o
depmod:         pci_write_config_byte
depmod:         __wake_up
depmod:         __udelay
depmod:         __release_region
depmod:         vsprintf
depmod:         kmalloc
depmod:         scsi_unregister_module
depmod:         __check_region
depmod:         pci_read_config_byte
depmod:         scsi_register
depmod:         __get_free_pages
depmod:         pcibios_present
depmod:         free_irq
depmod:         pci_read_config_dword
depmod:         iounmap
depmod:         free_pages
depmod:         __ioremap
depmod:         pci_read_config_word
depmod:         do_gettimeofday
depmod:         del_timer
depmod:         interruptible_sleep_on
depmod:         request_irq
depmod:         scsi_register_module
depmod:         pci_find_device
depmod:         pci_write_config_word
depmod:         sprintf
depmod:         jiffies
depmod:         __request_region
depmod:         printk
depmod:         add_timer
depmod:         __const_udelay
depmod:         ioport_resource

This is not so bad:

Code:

DEP386  = -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing
-fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586
-DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS
-include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h

Produces this:

Code:

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/scsi/FastTrak.o
depmod:         vsprintf
depmod:         iounmap
depmod:         __ioremap
depmod:         pci_read_config_word
depmod:         pci_write_config_word
depmod:         jiffies
depmod:         printk
depmod:         add_timer

How do I make the rest of these go away? This one is a little bit beyond me...

Thanks in advance!

whysyn · 06-23-2003, 08:18 AM

I should also point out that if I boot the system and then manually load the module, it seems to insert and run fine... it's just when I make a boot image (initrd) to enable FastTrak support at boot time that it fails to load.

jschiwal · 06-28-2003, 04:37 AM

Same thing on my Mandrake 9.1 computer. The source that I had, was partial source. By that I mean that there were pre-compiled modules. I believe that those modules were compiled for kernel version 2.4.19.
Also, there may be a mismatch between the versions of gcc used to compile the modules, and the gcc installed on your computer.

While, I get the same messages, I am able to use my raid drives, however, I have to boot from a non-raid drive.

Moev · 07-18-2003, 07:01 PM

I have the same problem.

I can manually "insmod -f FastTrak.o" and then mount the drives, but within initrd, I get a lot of unresolved symbols with the same module, and then a kernel panic

Is the insmod in the initrd more restrictive? I noticed when I manually did it, I had to force the kernel mismatch with "-f", but the insmod in the initrd (busybox?) doesnt have that option. Assuming it would just ignore that, I get unresolved symbols, but do not when i manually insmod.

Has anyone tried statically compiling FastTrak into the kernel and bypassing initrd?

whysyn · 07-18-2003, 07:40 PM

i ditched that card; windows user bought it from me for full price. i went out and got an lsi logic megaraid a4, $190 used, but it came right up and is as fast as can be, plus it supports up to 8 drives... more raid modes... etc...

the pain in the butt was not worth saving the money. if i were you i'd go out and buy a 3ware or megaraid card. plus they're pure hardware instead of hardware+driver, so they are faster and more reliable too.

just my $.02 after wasting three weeks of my life on the fasttrak.