Hi! I bought a Promise TX2 Ultra 100 Adapter and put it in a Sparc AXi board. (but booting from a small SCSI internal disk because of the missing OBP support for the IDE) Connected are 2 Seagate ST3120026A (120 GB Ultra DMA 3). Installed is Linux (Kernel 2.4.21). But I also tried 2.4.18 and 2.6.0-test3... the effects are all the same
My question now is: how works the Controller in Linux respect the Cylinder/Heads/Sectors ... What are the correct values to put in the fdisk??? Putting the logical values which work for DOS (in my case 16383/16/63) results in a Harddisk with just 8GB capacity... Whats wrong? The promise controller is supported and in booting the correct capacity and label of the disk are shown. With the tools hdparm -i the faked DOS values are shown (16383/16/63). With hdparm -g there are shown other values (which doesn't work neither). So I hope there is a hint of your part how to contact using Linux to the TX2 Controller... or it's just a problem with the fdisk (autodetect does not work the infos I have are from: http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/personal/family/0,1085,580,00.html and other pages from that site... I also contacted Promise but as for now I have no hint apart of a Patch for the kernel but which seems already be included in 2.4.21 and 2.6.0-test3. Thanks in advance... Matthias -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -------------------------------------------------- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualitätssieger! 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post