Promise PDC 20375

Promise PDC 20375

[martin f krafft]

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I was sold a Promise PDC 20375 IDE Controller for use with
a parallel ATA drive today. The guy said that Linux just started to
support it. However, I can only find 202xx related drivers in the
kernel, and they do not detect the 20375 controller.

Can I use this controller with Linux, or should I return it?

Thanks,

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Re: Promise PDC 20375

[Jeff Garzik]

martin f krafft wrote:
> I was sold a Promise PDC 20375 IDE Controller for use with
> a parallel ATA drive today. The guy said that Linux just started to
> support it. However, I can only find 202xx related drivers in the
> kernel, and they do not detect the 20375 controller.
> 
> Can I use this controller with Linux, or should I return it?

Use kernel 2.6.x or download the patch for 2.4.x at the URL below or buy 
a recent Linux distribution from a vendor.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/

	Jeff

Re: Promise PDC 20375

[martin f krafft]

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Thanks for the response, Jeff!

also sprach Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> [2004.04.09.0453 +0200]:
> Use kernel 2.6.x or download the patch for 2.4.x at the URL below
> or buy a recent Linux distribution from a vendor.

I forgot to mention that I am trying with 2.6.5 -- unsuccessfully.

Kernel configuration is here:

  ftp://ftp.madduck.net/scratch/config-2.6.5-embryo

Thanks for any further help!

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it said "needs windoze 98 or better," so i installed linux.

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