Problems with Sandpoint and IDE access

Matthew Locke mlocke at mvista.com
Tue Sep 18 04:00:34 EST 2001


hmm, I should have looked at your boot messages closer.  The IDE driver
does not see a hard drive.  Do you have the right options turned on in
the kernel?

Claire Troussier wrote:

> It already exists with major 3 and minor 0
>
> Matthew Locke a écrit :
>
>
>> you probably are missing /dev/hda .  Try "MAKEDEV hda"  in the /dev
>> directory.
>>
>> Claire Troussier wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using Montavista 2.4.2_hhl20 with a Sanpoint (8240) board and I am
>>> trying to add a hard disk on the IDE interface. I include the IDE driver
>>> in my kernel and I boot using an ethernet board. The driver seems to be
>>> correctly initialized but when I try to access the hard disk I always
>>> got the same error message
>>>
>>> sh-2.03# fdisk /dev/hda
>>>
>>> Unable to open /dev/hda
>>> sh-2.03#
>>>
>>> Any idea ?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>> Claire
>>>
>>> Here are the boot messages
>>>
>>> Linux/PPC load:
>>> Uncompressing Linux...done.
>>> Now booting the kernel
>>> Total memory = 16MB; using 0kB for hash table (at 00000000)
>>> Linux version 2.4.2_hhl20 (claire at claire) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991030
>>> (2.95.3 p
>>> rerelease/franzo)) #48 lun sep 10 16:41:47 CEST 2001
>>> Motorola SPS Sandpoint Test Platform
>>> Sandpoint port (C) 2000, 2001 MontaVista Software, Inc.
>>> (source at mvista.com)
>>> On node 0 totalpages: 4096
>>> zone(0): 4096 pages.
>>> zone(1): 0 pages.
>>> zone(2): 0 pages.
>>> Kernel command line:
>>> OpenPIC Version 1.2 (1 CPUs and 24 IRQ sources) at f7fd0000
>>> time_init: decrementer frequency = 24.997563 MHz
>>> Calibrating delay loop... 166.29 BogoMIPS
>>> Memory: 14600k available (968k kernel code, 436k data, 72k init, 0k
>>> highmem)
>>> Dentry-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
>>> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
>>> Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
>>> Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
>>> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
>>> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>>> CI: device 00:11.0 has unknown header type 7f, ignoring.
>>> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
>>> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
>>> Starting kswapd v1.8
>>> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
>>> block: queued sectors max/low 9637kB/3212kB, 64 slots per queue
>>> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
>>> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
>>> idebus=xx
>>> W82C105: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 59
>>> W82C105: chipset revision 5
>>> W82C105: 100% native mode on irq 17
>>>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfffd0-0xbfffd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>>> SL82C105 command word: 5
>>> IDE timing: 00000909, resetting to PIO0 timing
>>>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfffd8-0xbfffdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>>> SL82C105 command word: 5
>>> IDE timing: 000003e4, resetting to PIO0 timing
>>> Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
>>> SERIAL_PCI ena
>>> bled
>>> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>>> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>>> 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.13 loaded
>>> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xbfffff00, 00:50:fc:21:19:ca,
>>> IRQ 18
>>> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
>>> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
>>> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
>>> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
>>> Sending BOOTP requests.... OK
>>> IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 192.168.254.20, my address is
>>> 192.168.254.203
>>> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
>>> Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.254.20
>>> Looking up port of RPC 100005/2 on 192.168.254.20
>>> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly.
>>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k init 4k openfirmware
>>> INIT: version 2.77 booting
>>> INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
>>> sh-2.03#
>>>
>>>
>>> sh-2.03# cat /proc/pci
>>> PCI devices found:
>>>   Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
>>>     Class 0600: PCI device 1057:0003 (rev 17).
>>>       Master Capable.  Latency=32.
>>>       Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x0 [0xffffffff].
>>>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x0 [0xfff].
>>>   Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
>>>     Class 0601: PCI device 10ad:0565 (rev 16).
>>>       IRQ 17.
>>>   Bus  0, device  11, function  1:
>>>     Class 0101: PCI device 10ad:0105 (rev 5).
>>>       IRQ 17.
>>>       Master Capable.  Latency=128.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=40.
>>>       I/O at 0xbffff8 [0xbfffff].
>>>       I/O at 0xbffff4 [0xbffff7].
>>>       I/O at 0xbfffe8 [0xbfffef].
>>>       I/O at 0xbfffe4 [0xbfffe7].
>>>       I/O at 0xbfffd0 [0xbfffdf].
>>>       I/O at 0xbfffc0 [0xbfffcf].
>>>   Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
>>>     Class 0200: PCI device 10ec:8139 (rev 16).
>>>       IRQ 18.
>>>       Master Capable.  Latency=128.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
>>>       I/O at 0xbffe00 [0xbffeff].
>>>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xbfffff00 [0xbfffffff].
>>> sh-2.03#
>>>
>>>
>>> sh-2.03# cat /proc/ioports
>>> 00000000-0000001f : dma1
>>> 00000020-0000003f : pic1
>>> 00000040-0000005f : timer
>>> 00000080-0000008f : dma page reg
>>> 000000a0-000000bf : pic2
>>> 000000c0-000000df : dma2
>>> 000002f8-000002ff : serial(auto)
>>> 000003f8-000003ff : serial(auto)
>>> 00bffe00-00bffeff : PCI device 10ec:8139
>>>   00bffe00-00bffeff : eth0
>>> 00bfffc0-00bfffcf : PCI device 10ad:0105
>>> 00bfffd0-00bfffdf : PCI device 10ad:0105
>>>   00bfffd0-00bfffd7 : ide0
>>>   00bfffd8-00bfffdf : ide1
>>> 00bfffe4-00bfffe7 : PCI device 10ad:0105
>>> 00bfffe8-00bfffef : PCI device 10ad:0105
>>> 00bffff4-00bffff7 : PCI device 10ad:0105
>>> 00bffff8-00bfffff : PCI device 10ad:0105
>>> sh-2.03#
>>>
>>> sh-2.03# ls -l /dev/hda*
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   0 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   1 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda1
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,  10 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda10
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,  11 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda11
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,  12 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda12
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,  13 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda13
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,  14 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda14
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,  15 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda15
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,  16 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda16
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   2 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda2
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   3 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda3
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   4 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda4
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   5 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda5
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   6 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda6
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   7 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda7
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   8 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda8
>>> brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   9 Sep 10  2001 /dev/hda9
>>> sh-2.03#
>>>
>>>
>>


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