FC4 not seeing PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378)

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 20.10.2005 schrieb tlc um 20:40:

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> I have an onboard PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) set in IDE RAID
> mode. ( I have tried it in IDE non  RAID as well ) and although linux
> finds the controller an loads the sata_promise driver for it, there
> are no devices detected attached to the card.

It is a BIOS supported software RAID controller chip (aka fake RAID /
win-RAID).

> Asus P4P800 Deluxe, 2GB,P43.0E
> 
> Booting off an SATA drive, a CD and a DVDR drive on the secondary IDE.
> The IDE ports are set in compatibility mode, secondary PATA + SATA
> 
> I have to IDE drives on the promise controller and the promise BIOS
> sees both drives and created a RAID0

You seem to like living on the risky edge.

> I am running a 2.6.11.12 kernel due to a win4lin SMP issue, but from
> what I read the problem with this card was already fixed before
> 2.6.11.x

I suggest you ask on the list dedicated to dmraid:

https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list

I think you will get better feedback from there, as the author of dmraid
answers there too.

Alexander


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