Re: IDE issue, no booting and that last_ipl

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Alan Buxey wrote:

> 1) IDEBUSSPEED.  this seems to want to run a 33MHz.  is this okay for gayle ??
> The A1200 motherboard only runs at 14.x/28.x ??  I tried with  idebus=14
> etc etc but ide-probe still came up with 33 - i guess  bootstrap
> doesnt pass this argument along?

> 2) delays.  do we use the mdelay(); calls in IDE system...or do we use the
> HZ/20 calls.

We can probably eliminate the above two points as 2.4.18 is fine on my  4000.
 
> 3) if this *IS* to do with IRQ and address space allocation (as it appears
> to be leaning towards) what has changed?  oeverything prior to 2.4.14 
> worked.... i dont have a 2.4.13 source code tarball anymore (dumped my old
> CD's too....no backups there!) I'd love it if someone had such a tarball
> I could FTP as then I could start 'diffing' the files in drivers/ide
> to see what happened.......

I have a tar of 2.2.x, is that any use ?

Ken.