From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christiaan den Besten" Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_promise: Port enumeration order - SATA 150 TX4, SATA 300 TX4 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:52:21 +0100 Message-ID: <011f01c639f9$8dc86bc0$3d64880a@speedy> References: <43FFAE3D.7010002@physics.harvard.edu> <44000036.7070403@eyal.emu.id.au> Reply-To: "Christiaan den Besten" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Eyal Lebedinsky , Milan Kupcevic Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au, torvalds@osdl.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Hi ! We have several of these boards in use [SATA 300 TX4] (bought over time .. not in one batch). All of them have the ordering as described below. So another vote for "Please fix!" :) bye, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eyal Lebedinsky" To: "Milan Kupcevic" Cc: "Jeff Garzik" ; ; ; ; ; Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 7:59 AM Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_promise: Port enumeration order - SATA 150 TX4, SATA 300 TX4 > Milan Kupcevic wrote: >> From: Milan Kupcevic >> >> Fix Promise SATAII 150 TX4 (PDC40518) and Promise SATA 300 TX4 >> (PDC40718-GP) wrong port enumeration order that makes it (nearly) >> impossible to deal with boot problems using two or more drives. >> >> Signed-off-by: Milan Kupcevic >> --- >> >> The current kernel driver assumes: >> >> port 1 - scsi3 >> port 2 - scsi1 >> port 3 - scsi0 >> port 4 - scsi2 > > I totally agree with the fact that the Linux driver gets the ports wrong > when compared to the BIOS, Windows and surely contradicts the port > numbers printed on the board. I doubt we all got samples on the one > bad batch... > > It *is* a real problem and if the solution is correct then I support it. > > Maybe we need a quick feedback from current users: do you guys find > that the ports are detected as they are labelled (white silk screen) > on the board or do they show up out of order (as listed above by > Milan)? > > -- > Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) > attach .zip as .dat > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >