From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261590AbVGRUFP (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:05:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261601AbVGRUFP (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:05:15 -0400 Received: from ns.solnet.cz ([193.165.198.50]:55254 "EHLO solnet.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261590AbVGRUFA (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:05:00 -0400 X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by soLNet AVirCheck 2.0.29 (http://www.solnet.cz/avircheck) Message-ID: <42DC0A99.2010304@solnet.cz> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:01:29 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFydGluIFBvdm9sbsO9?= Organization: soLNet, s.r.o. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Drake CC: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise TX4200 support? References: <42DBFC9E.1040607@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <42DBFC9E.1040607@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4, > due to relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata > driver from promise's website, which is 2.4-only): > > 0000:01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown > device 3519 (rev 02) > Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 > Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 > I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] > I/O ports at d800 [size=256] > Memory at ff8ff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > Memory at ff8c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] > Expansion ROM at ff8e0000 [disabled] [size=64K] > Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 > > What is the status of this on 2.6? I found a blank changeset (??) in the > mail below, from 24th May: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Please pull the 'new-ids' branch from >> >> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git >> >> This add new PCI ids to some SATA drivers. > >> commit 37c15447c565ab458ee3778e198d08f4041caa99 >> tree 2eda289903e3bf19eebce7d5f9aaed2240a02479 >> parent 9422e59ddf6cae68e46d7a2c3afe1ce4e739d3eb >> author Martin Povolny Mon, 16 May 2005 > 02:41:00 -0400 >> committer Jeff Garzik Mon, 16 May 2005 02:41:00 -0400 >> >> [PATCH] sata_promise: new PCI ID for TX4200 >> >> [note - blank changeset] >> > > Was this accidently removed, or is the sata_promise driver actually > incompatible with this hardware? > We are succesfully running patched sata_promise with 3 disks in a raid5/raid1 setup. (Patched against ubuntu linux-image 2.6.11-1-686 package.) # check_partitions disk: [8.0] => '/dev/sda', 279.4 GB 1 : /dev/sda1 : Linux raid autodetect ( 55 MB) 2 : /dev/sda2 : Linux raid autodetect ( 285640 MB) 3 : /dev/sda3 : Linux swap ( 486 MB) disk: [8.16] => '/dev/sdb', 279.4 GB 1 : /dev/sdb1 : Linux raid autodetect ( 55 MB) 2 : /dev/sdb2 : Linux raid autodetect ( 285640 MB) 3 : /dev/sdb3 : Linux swap ( 486 MB) disk: [8.32] => '/dev/sdc', 279.4 GB 1 : /dev/sdc1 : Linux raid autodetect ( 55 MB) 2 : /dev/sdc2 : Linux raid autodetect ( 285640 MB) 3 : /dev/sdc3 : Linux swap ( 486 MB) disk: [9.0] => '/dev/md', 0 : /dev/md0 : raid1 ( 55 MB) uuid: db3bdcf4:3e4774c7:b2541959:eeef67e0 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 1 : /dev/md1 : raid5 ( 571280 MB) uuid: b9562e24:8a095e31:40702712:19009a40 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 'lspci -v' says: 02:02.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 (rev 02) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18 I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at feaff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at feac0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at feae0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 No problems at all. Regards, -- Mgr. Martin Povolný, soLNet, s.r.o., +420777714458, martin.povolny@solnet.cz