Re: Fwd: [LIBATA] drives not detected

[Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>]

Patrick Ale wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I got asked to forward this email I sent to the lkml to here :)
> So that's what I do.
> 
> 
> The problem below exists with 2.6.20-git11 and the Jeff's libata-dev
> linus-upstream tree, which I cloned yesterday evening at the unholy
> hour of 00:10 GMT
> 
> I am not on the ide list, so if you could CC me in anything regarding
> my problem I'd be very thankfull :)
> 
> 
> I attached a complete dmesg output.
> 
> 
> Patrick
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Patrick Ale <patrick.ale@gmail.com>
> Date: Feb 15, 2007 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [LIBATA] drives not detected
> To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> 
> 
> On 2/15/07, Patrick Ale <patrick.ale@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Good morning all,
> 
> 
>> Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to
>> this promise card.
>> I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so
>> the driver gets loaded properly, and since i see all my other disks
>> but these two I think we can rule out a misconfiguration of the kernel
>> config this time ;-)
> 
> 
> It would be nice if I'd also mention the kernel I use eh.
> It's linux-2.6-git8
> 
> 

It's strange that your on-board Promise adapter works but the add-on
adapter detects no devices.

Could you please try reloading the pata_pdc2027x driver by
"rmmod pata_pdc2027x; modprobe pata_pdc2027x" and send the dmesg.

Thanks,

Albert