sata_sx4 driver

sata_sx4 driver

[Thomas Kraemmer]

Hi Jeff,


I'd be very grateful to get your advice on the following issue:

My Promise Sata150 SX4  adapter doesn't work with the sata_sx4 driver 
versions 0.7, 0.8 and 0.9. The card is properly shown by lspci:
0000:04:02.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20621 
[SATA150 SX4] 4 Channel IDE RAID Controller (rev 01)

Booting leads to the following error in versions 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 (tried 
different kernels, e.g. Kernel 2.6.20.1 with 0.9):
Feb 24 21:54:55 gatekeeper kernel: libata version 1.12 loaded.
Feb 24 21:54:55 gatekeeper kernel: sata_sx4 version 0.7
Feb 24 21:54:55 gatekeeper kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:02.0[A] 
-> GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
Feb 24 21:54:55 gatekeeper kernel: Detect Local DIMM Fail
Feb 24 21:54:55 gatekeeper kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 
0000:04:02.0 disabled
Feb 24 21:54:55 gatekeeper kernel: sata_sx4: probe of 0000:04:02.0 
failed with error -12

Booting with driver version 0.5 works (kernel 2.6.9) and yields the 
following log:
Feb 27 19:53:32 gatekeeper kernel: sata_sx4 version 0.50
Feb 27 19:53:32 gatekeeper kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:04:02.0[A] 
-> GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 28
Feb 27 19:53:32 gatekeeper kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 
0xF8EC0200 ctl 0xF8EC0238 bmdma 0x0 irq 28
Feb 27 19:53:32 gatekeeper kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 
0xF8EC0280 ctl 0xF8EC02B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 28
Feb 27 19:53:32 gatekeeper kernel: ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 
0xF8EC0300 ctl 0xF8EC0338 bmdma 0x0 irq 28
Feb 27 19:53:32 gatekeeper kernel: ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 
0xF8EC0380 ctl 0xF8EC03B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 28


Any ideas or advice how to further analyse that problem with the driver 
versions above 0.5 ?


Many thanks in advance and best regards,
Thomas


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Thomas Kraemmer
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