Promise 20378

[Luca Berra]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 04:41:43PM +0100, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 04:55:29PM +0100, Beatrix Kiddo wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> I was wondering what the status of support for the Promise PDC 20378 
>> chip is.
>> I'm using a Asus K8V SE Deluxe and this is the onboard PATA-Raid Chip.
>> 
>> It identifies as FastTrak 378, so I thought it should work, but, well, 
>> it didn't.
same mobo, same issue :(

>Hrm, are you using dmraid and can provide further info ?
>
>"dmraid -V", "dmraid -r", "dmraid -ccc -s" are a good start to
>see, if this is a principle issue or a known RAID set grouping logic flaw.

root at Moskow ~ # dmraid -V
dmraid version:                 1.0.0-rc5f (2004.11.24) 
dmraid library version: 1.0.0-rc5f (2004.11.24)
device-mapper version:  4.3.0
root at Moskow ~ # dmraid -r
No Software RAID disks
root at Moskow ~ # dmraid -ccc -s
No Software RAID disks
root at Moskow ~ # 

lspci gives
00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)

i have no idea where the metadata is stored on such systems.

L.


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