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Description of problem:
My system has Promise IDE controller that works fine with rh7.1 (2.4.3-12).
 When booting installer, I have to tell the use "linux ide0=0xb400" to get
it to see the promise controller as ide0.  When I do this, the kernel hangs
at the "Partition check:" with "hda:" only being displayed.  The upgraded
2.4.9-6 kernel for rh7.1 does the same thing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot rh7.2 2.4.7 kernel or rh7.1 2.4.9-6 kernel
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  kernel halts at the partition check phase when I give it
the "ide0=0xb400" kernel parameter.


Expected Results:  Here is a dmesg log from rh7.1 boot with 2.4.3-12 kernel:

Linux version 2.4.3-12 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96
20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)) #1 Fri Jun 8 16:12:46 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bffc000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000bffc000 - 000000000bfff000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000bfff000 - 000000000c000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 49148
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 45052 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=2.4.3-12 ro root=306
BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-12
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 350.809 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 699.59 BogoMIPS
Memory: 189500k/196592k available (1233k kernel code, 5168k reserved, 93k
data, 236k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002
CPU:     After generic, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002
CPU:             Common caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: AMD K6
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0560, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00
isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
isapnp: Card'Creative ViBRA16X PnP'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
block: queued sectors max/low 125677kB/41892kB, 384 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58
PCI: Found IRQ 7 for device 00:0b.0
PDC20262: chipset revision 1
PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using
pci=biosirq.
ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide2: BM-DMA at 0x9800-0x9807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
    ide3: BM-DMA at 0x9808-0x980f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: Maxtor 54098U8, ATA DISK drive
hdg: BCD-44XH CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide0 at 0xb400-0xb407,0xb002 on irq 7
ide3 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 80041248 sectors (40981 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=79406/16/63, UDMA(66)
Partition check:
 hda: [PTBL] [4982/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 >


Additional info:

I think this only happens when I give the kernel the ide0=0xb400 parameter,
but since my system is setup to boot from /dev/hda (lilo, fstab, etc) it's
hard to test without it.

The 2.4.3-12 kernel from rh7.1 sees the Promise IDE controller as ide0
automatically without any additional parameters or forcing.