From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Dibowitz Subject: Re: Promise 20378 Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:32:19 -0700 Message-ID: <4442B7E3.4000502@ipom.com> References: <20050909152134.24qevggbgg480ooo@engin.mail.umich.edu> <4439C7EA.601@ipom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig8D95F9DC21D105224E7309B0" Return-path: Received: from mail.ipom.com ([209.40.128.125]:59057 "EHLO uberhacker.sage-inc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbWDPVc2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:32:28 -0400 Received: from [10.1.1.2] (cpe-24-24-245-191.socal.res.rr.com [24.24.245.191]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uberhacker.sage-inc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A3561BBEA for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:32:31 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <4439C7EA.601@ipom.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig8D95F9DC21D105224E7309B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I never saw a response to my email below. Any thoughts on this? Thanks. Phil Dibowitz wrote: > mreuther@umich.edu wrote: > >>Phil, there is a patch in Jeff Garzik's libata-dev patch queue to support PATA >>on Promise SATA hosts. I haven't tried it out myself, but it may cover your >>case. >> >>Go to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/ and grab the >>latest patch for 2.4 or 2.6. If you grab 2.6.13-rc7-libata1.patch.bz2, it >>applies cleanly to 2.6.13. >> >>Please report back the results! > > > Finally got around to trying this. It works great! I patched 2.6.15.6 > with this patch, and everything seems to be fully functional as far as > the PATA drive on that controller is concerned. > > However, a few concerns: > > 1. The kernel raid autodetection doesn't work here. Though I'm not clear > if it supports going across controllers. I set up a raid-1 array wtih a > drive on my other controller, set the partition type to autodetect, but > a reboot left my array with just the drive not on the promise card. > > 2. Currently my BIOS's ATA settings are "SATA mode" - I also have "PATA > mode" "SATA+PATA mode". I tried SATA+PATA and I get a bunch of IRQ16 > ignored messages, a few tracebacks, and a LOT of slowness. I also get 3 > scsiI haven't tried the PATA mode. > > Note that my box has 82801EB/ER controller which is currently my primary > contoller as well as the Promise PDC20378 which is what I'm using this > patch for. > > Any help would be appreciated. > -- Phil Dibowitz phil@ipom.com Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess --------------enig8D95F9DC21D105224E7309B0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEQrfjN5XoxaHnMrsRAqVIAJ4yICSZyKuGOCzj+3CcWZE/jG+RxQCfe2Z9 vKZbK+IhXj/lZ69mCDEccZc= =UAMO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8D95F9DC21D105224E7309B0--