What's the status of hotplugging a disc on a Promise TX4-controller

What's the status of hotplugging a disc on a Promise TX4-controller

[Matthias Schniedermeyer]

Hi


In two computer i have an onboard AHCI controller and hotplugging works like a charm. (The few times i actually tried that)

In another computer i have 2 Promise TX4 controllers and i couldn't find the information if 2.6.20 finally brought hotplug support for the TX4.
At least the 2,8MB "Changelog" didn't give any satisfying answers.


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Re: What's the status of hotplugging a disc on a Promise TX4-controller

[Mikael Pettersson]

On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:36:10 +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> In two computer i have an onboard AHCI controller and hotplugging works like a charm. (The few times i actually tried that)
> 
> In another computer i have 2 Promise TX4 controllers and i couldn't find the information if 2.6.20 finally brought hotplug support for the TX4.

Hotplugging hasn't been implemented yet for sata_promise. I hope
to have a look at it soonish, but I can't say exactly when.

/Mikael

Re: What's the status of hotplugging a disc on a Promise TX4-controller

[Matthias Schniedermeyer]

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Hotplugging hasn't been implemented yet for sata_promise. I hope
> to have a look at it soonish, but I can't say exactly when.

I would be willing to test a patch when you are ready

I have an "older" S150 and a "newer" S300 card.
Al tough the older one advertises itself as a FastTrak, i don't think it differs from the older "SATA 150 TX4" i also have flying around somewhere
(From pci.ids i would expect that to be 105a:3318).

Currently in use:
- snip -
02:01.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02) -> 105a:3d17
02:02.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20319 (FastTrak S150 TX4) (rev 02) -> 105a:3319
- snip -

So technically speaking i could test 3 more or less different variations of that controller, if you want.



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