From: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
To: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Promise 20378
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:54:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <431AA81E.8000205@ipom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42E2AAE0.2090501@ipom.com>
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I never did get a response to this - is this the known status (if so,
that's fine I have a work around, but if I'm doing something stupid, i'd
also like to know so I can start using this)...
Thanks.
Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-04 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-03 9:53 Promise 20378 Phil Dibowitz
2005-07-05 2:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-07-05 5:50 ` Phil Dibowitz
2005-07-23 20:38 ` Phil Dibowitz
2005-09-04 7:54 ` Phil Dibowitz [this message]
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2005-09-09 19:21 mreuther
2006-04-10 2:50 ` Phil Dibowitz
2006-04-16 21:32 ` Phil Dibowitz
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