Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Apr 2004 13:16:23 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: libata problems on Promise SX4000 controller |
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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi, > > I had problems getting my Promise SX4000 controller to run with libata. > First, I noticed libata refused to drive it (no associated PCI id). After > patching that (including the handler for the right chipset), a > "modprobe sata_promise" hung for about 15 minutes while initializing the > ECC RAM. It then recognized the one attached harddisk, but disk access was > not really possible (I gave up after waiting for half an hour or so). > Let me apologize for testing an older version of libata. At the time I had > the problems, it was the newest available version. I enabled debugging and > post the logs here in the hope that they might help supporting this > controller in the future. > > A note about the controller itself: It has 4 Parallel ATA ports and no > Serial ATA ports. The controller sports the usual SoftRAID from Promise > (0,1,0+1 and 5). The RAID5 seems to be a new feature. I do not care about > the RAID (well, I do, I'm writing a dm configuration helper for it right > now), but I would like to access the drive.
Well, the main problem is that you are trying to drive a PATA controller with a SATA driver :)
If you wanted to list this as a feature request on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ that might be reasonable...
I have no idea how different the PATA controllers are from the SATA one I tested. Although it does detect your device, I don't know what differences exist...
Jeff
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