From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753168AbWKFOGL (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:06:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753163AbWKFOGL (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:06:11 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:44738 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753168AbWKFOGK (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:06:10 -0500 Message-ID: <454F414F.8020802@anagramm.de> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:06:07 +0100 From: Clemens Koller User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise PDC20375 (SATA150 TX2plus) doesn't work with last kernels. References: <233976e40611040503m2a4bf449k78f84b0768d1f14e@mail.gmail.com> <233976e40611052238u4dfa9bdek83c74494b7163b39@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <233976e40611052238u4dfa9bdek83c74494b7163b39@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:224ad0fd4f2efe95e6ec4f0a3ca8a73c To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Jean! > So, I've investigated to see why UBUNTU Dapper see my IDE disk and why > newer kernels doesn't. There's some big changes in dmesg : a > sata_promise PATA port is found. Or it's on this port IDE disk is > plugged. > --------------------- > Is there any PATA support broken in new sata_promise/libata stuff ? Is > there any good kernel configuration in order to make it works? It's not broken, it's just not included yet. There is a patch somewhere out there, which could fix your issue. Just to give it a name, it's something like: linux-2.6-sata-promise-pata-ports.patch I patched a 2.6.18.1 and didn't run into any troubles with it with lots of i/o. So, i take it as "works for me". But Jeff knows when it's the right time to push that. :-) Greets, Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm.de Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19