LinuxQuestions.org - SvrWks CSB6 IDE RAID Controller, lost interrupt

Hi folks,

after searching the web with Google and finding no solution, I'll start another try here.

The IDE RAID controller in my new ProLiant ML330 G3 ATA causes several problems and is not working at all.

To start from scratch: The system has been installed using a HP Ultra3 SCSI controller and a suitable disk. This configuration worked.

After buying two Seagate 160GB ATA100 disks and attaching them to the onboard CSB6 IDE RAID controller (two IDE channels) I was able to create a RAID1 array and initialize that from within the BIOS.

After booting SuSE Linux ES8 (SLES 8, SP1 and some patches) I found the following messages in boot.msg:

Quote:

<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
<4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
<4>PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 70, VID=1166, DID=0217
<4>PCI_IDE: chipset revision 160
<4>PCI_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2000-0x2007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
<4>PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
<4>ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
<4>SvrWks CSB6: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 79
<4>SvrWks CSB6: chipset revision 160
<4>SvrWks CSB6: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4> ide2: BM-DMA at 0x2c20-0x2c27, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
<4> ide3: BM-DMA at 0x2c28-0x2c2f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
<4>hda: LTN486S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>hdb: PLEXTOR DVD-ROM PX-116A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>hde: ST3160021A, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdg: ST3160021A, ATA DISK drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide2 at 0x2c00-0x2c07,0x2c0a on irq 14
<4>ide3 at 0x2c10-0x2c17,0x2c1a on irq 15
<4>blk: queue c047c3a4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
<4>hde: lost interrupt
<4>hde: lost interrupt
<4>hde: lost interrupt
<4>hde: lost interrupt
<6>hde: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33)
<4>hde: lost interrupt
<4>hde: lost interrupt
<4>blk: queue c047c744, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
<4>hdg: lost interrupt
<4>hdg: lost interrupt
<4>hdg: lost interrupt
<4>hdg: lost interrupt
<6>hdg: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33)
<4>hdg: lost interrupt
<4>hdg: lost interrupt
<4>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
<6>Partition check:
<6> hde:ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
<4>hde: lost interrupt
<4>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
<4>hde: lost interrupt
<4> unknown partition table
<6> hdg:ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
<4>hdg: lost interrupt
<4>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
<4>hdg: lost interrupt
<4> unknown partition table

Whenever I try to access any disks (with partitioner or fdisk) I encounter a big delay and bunches of "lost interrupt" messages.

What I already tried:

replaced the ATA100 cable
changed disk jumper setting from cable select to master
changed RAID setup in BIOS from 1 to 0
dropped RAID setup in BIOS
put both disks on one IDE channel (former I had one on each IDE channel)
reduced to one disk only
changed BIOS from OS Linux to Other OS (hang while booting)
booted Linux with noacpi (also hangs)

Hope someone is willing to help me with that.

An additional question: The Linux kernel just recognizes the physical drives attached to the RAID controller. I would think that this should be hidden from the OS by the controller BIOS and only show a virtual disk containing the RAID as a single device to the OS.

Regards, Ronald