Promise SATA controller almost working...

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 04:55, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 10.02.2004 schrieb Jean-Rene Cormier um 02:36:
> > I'm currently working on a boot.iso for FC1 with Promise SATA support
> > with the ft3xx driver. So far it finds the controller but when it tries
> > to load the driver it fails and I get some unresolved symbol error such
> > as: scsi_unregister, fasync_helper, kill_fasync, register_chrdev and
> > scsi_register then I get the message "Hint: You are trying to load a
> > modules without a GPL compatible license and it has unresolved
> > symbols....."
> 
> How did you compile the driver: with module versions or without? Try it
> the different way (I am sure you know where and how to modify the
> Makefile of the driver package).

I compiled it without module versions, I'll give it a try with it
tonight.

> > In the modules.dep files I added ft3xx: sd_mod scsi_mod but it still
> > doesn't work... anybody could help me with this?
> 
> "depmod -ae -F /boot/System.map" after you added a kernel module and
> want to rebuild the modules.dep file.

Doing so still gives me some unresolved symbols but only 2,
scsi_unregister_Rd039d977 and scsi_register_Rc1833384 and the
modules.dep only lists scsi_mod for the ft3xx driver, I thought it
needed the sd_mod too.

> > Also I've read on this list that the newer kernel released for FC1 had
> > support for this card, is that true? If so is there a boot.iso somewhere
> > with a newer kernel? Or at least anybody could tell me how I can create
> > a new boot.iso with a newer kernel?
> 
> Do you really want to use the RAID driver? I tested my onboard Promise
> PATA controller 20265 with both the kernel driver pdcraid.o as well with
> the Promise driver FastTrak.o. With both drivers the performance was
> really poor, although it was better with the Promise driver.

Well so far I want to use whatever works because I have a computer I
really want to use that's pretty much useless until I can install FC1 on
it. If I can get it to install, I could always change the driver
afterwards and see which one works better.

> I decided to use the controller just for plugging the harddrives to it
> and then use software raid function of Linux. Those controller chips are
> no real hardware raid controller, they just have BIOS supported software
> raid implementations.

I only have 1 drive connected to it so I won't be using RAID at all.

Thanks

Jean-Rene Cormier