From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Dibowitz Subject: Re: Promise 20378 Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:54:06 -0700 Message-ID: <431AA81E.8000205@ipom.com> References: <42C7B584.401@ipom.com> <42C9F50B.4000508@pobox.com> <42E2AAE0.2090501@ipom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC04B2855EFB77BFBDAA5985B" Return-path: Received: from carbon.nocdirect.com ([69.73.156.63]:19598 "EHLO carbon.nocdirect.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751239AbVIDHyP (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 03:54:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42E2AAE0.2090501@ipom.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Dibowitz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC04B2855EFB77BFBDAA5985B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, -- Phil Dibowitz phil@ipom.com Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 --------------enigC04B2855EFB77BFBDAA5985B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDGqgeN5XoxaHnMrsRAnjgAJ4jbZ9vKrBxuld15FaGKCOcHiC7zwCgkVUR 89HZI+qRqXoM1Y2n2QOLtvU= =/hsq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC04B2855EFB77BFBDAA5985B--