Re: Promise 20378

[Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>]

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I finally got a chance to test this.

So, the sata_promise driver seems to support the Promise 20378
controller, but it doesn't see PATA drives (the controller supports both
SATA and PATA drives).

I plugged a single PATA drive in - then in the promise BIOS I configured
a single "array" on the drive, and booted. This sata_promise sees the
PATA and SATA controller, but doesn't see the drives:

Jul 23 13:31:47 rider kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF89E4200 ctl
0xF89E4238 bmdma 0x0 irq 23
Jul 23 13:31:47 rider kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF89E4280 ctl
0xF89E42B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 23
Jul 23 13:31:47 rider kernel: ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Jul 23 13:31:47 rider kernel: scsi0 : sata_promise
Jul 23 13:31:47 rider kernel: ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Jul 23 13:31:47 rider kernel: scsi1 : sata_promise

It sees no drives there period. Further, while it the device has 2 SATA
chains, it only has 1 PATA, but as you can see, it seems to see 2.

Any ideas?

(PS. I'm not on the list, so please CC me).

Thanks,
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