From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 Description of problem: i have my system on a WD 1200JB drive hanging off of a promise UDMA 100 TX2 pci card as /dev/hde. it works flawlessly with redhat 7.3 and the 2.4.18-5 kernel in udma mode 5 (UDMA100) and has been working flawlessly in that mode for over two months. when booting the kernel for the (null) installer, it complains when probing the drive at bootup. it gives several 'hde: lost interrupt' errors and then several more verbose DMA errors when the kernel gives up and resets the promise interface. i've never gotten the installer past this point and even if it could get past it, i wouldn't trust such flaky support for my main IDE interface. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert promise UDMA100 TX2 card into computer 2. attach drive to promise controller 3. boot (null) installer 4. installer will run until it probes the drives on the promise controller at which point it will fail Actual Results: install kernel would loop trying to get the drive on the promise configured. i would let it go a few minutes before giving up. Expected Results: it should have recognized and configured the drive/controller normally like the redhat 7.3 kernel does. Additional info: i have a second drive on an on-board IDE controller that was detected and configured properly. the on-board controller is also UDMA100, but uses an SiS 5513 chipset. the motherboard is an MSI 645 ultra with a pentium 4 1.6A cpu.
This seems to have been related to the (null) beta APIC handling and should now be ok. If not re-open the bug