From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lukasz Kosewski Subject: Re: Support for the PATA port in sata_promise Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:23:40 -0400 Message-ID: <355e5e5e050724092372cf8990@mail.gmail.com> References: <1122193788.42e3517c7f059@www.hosting-agency.de> Reply-To: Lukasz Kosewski Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.202]:17735 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261395AbVGXQXm convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:23:42 -0400 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r28so438789nza for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:23:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1122193788.42e3517c7f059@www.hosting-agency.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Simon Raffeiner Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 7/24/05, Simon Raffeiner wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an Asus A8V Deluxe Mainboard with an onboard Promise SATA 378 > (PDC20378) controller. Because four PATA ports are never enough one of my hard > disks is connected to the PATA port of the Promise chip. I use Ubuntu Linux > 5.04 (Hoary) and after upgrading to kernel 2.6.11 the port stopped working. It > seems that Ubuntu kernel 2.6.10 contains a version of the sata_promise driver > that features PATA support, but later that patch was dropped and also vanilla > kernels up to 2.6.12.3 don't feature it. If you want to use 2.6.11 (for stability? Nostalgia?), check out the 2.6.11-libata-dev1 patch (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.bz2), which added the PATA support. If you don't mind testing the latest and greatest, try Andrew Morton's -mm patch to the 2.6.13-rc3 kernel, which also has the patch. If you check the 'broken-out' patches which Andrew has, you can grab just the patch itself and modify it to whatever kernel you want to apply it to, but unless you know what you're doing I wouldn't recommend that route. > Some other distributions seem to include a PATA-enabled version, but when will > support for the PATA port be included in vanilla kernels? The version Ubuntu > kernel 2.6.10 uses works fine. Unfortunately it is not compatible with newer > vanilla kernels. I guess that depends on when it's deemed stable, but I guess either 2.6.13 or 2.6.14. Cheers, Luke Kosewski Human Cannonball Net Integration Technologies