From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SATA Promise driver Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:40:22 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40BE1F16.2030609@pobox.com> References: <007101c448ce$fd2cc8d0$0a01a8c0@jbsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28842 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263366AbUFBSkm (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:40:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <007101c448ce$fd2cc8d0$0a01a8c0@jbsys.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jim B Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jim B wrote: > Jeff > > I have a K8V SE Deluxe MoBo with a Promise FastTrack 378 controller. It can be > used as a RAID or extended IDE controller by sellecting the proper BIOS setting. > I have tried the RAID setting and used ft3xx.o driver (from Promise) in FC1 2.4 > kernels to use the two 160 GB IDE disks. I currently have it set to extended > IDE. I use the pdc-ultra.o driver (from Promise) in FC1 2.4 kernels for this > mode. I installed FC2 x86_64 version to another partition on the standard IDE > disk. It boots and works, except it will not see the PATA drives on the Promise > controller. It says there are no drives present. Does the SATA_Promise module > support this controller in either of these modes? Am I doing something wrong? > Is it because I am using IDE drives instead of SATA drivers? As the name implies, sata_promise driver does not support PATA. This support is planned, but not present yet. Jeff