Ok, I'm blind.   This is what lspci shows for my promise card. dmesg shows nothing.
my config is attached.  the driver is compiled during kernel compilation.

00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20262 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 4d33
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at d800 [size=8]
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=4]
        I/O ports at e000 [size=8]
        I/O ports at e400 [size=4]
        I/O ports at e800 [size=64]
        Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [58] Power Management version 1