Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4, > due to relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata > driver from promise's website, which is 2.4-only): > > 0000:01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown > device 3519 (rev 02) > Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 > Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 > I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] > I/O ports at d800 [size=256] > Memory at ff8ff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > Memory at ff8c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] > Expansion ROM at ff8e0000 [disabled] [size=64K] > Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 > > What is the status of this on 2.6? I found a blank changeset (??) in the > mail below, from 24th May: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Please pull the 'new-ids' branch from >> >> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git >> >> This add new PCI ids to some SATA drivers. > <snip> >> commit 37c15447c565ab458ee3778e198d08f4041caa99 >> tree 2eda289903e3bf19eebce7d5f9aaed2240a02479 >> parent 9422e59ddf6cae68e46d7a2c3afe1ce4e739d3eb >> author Martin Povolny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 16 May 2005 > 02:41:00 -0400 >> committer Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 16 May 2005 02:41:00 -0400 >> >> [PATCH] sata_promise: new PCI ID for TX4200 >> >> [note - blank changeset] >> > > Was this accidently removed, or is the sata_promise driver actually > incompatible with this hardware? >
We are succesfully running patched sata_promise with 3 disks in a raid5/raid1 setup. (Patched against ubuntu linux-image 2.6.11-1-686 package.) # check_partitions disk: [8.0] => '/dev/sda', 279.4 GB 1 : /dev/sda1 : Linux raid autodetect ( 55 MB) 2 : /dev/sda2 : Linux raid autodetect ( 285640 MB) 3 : /dev/sda3 : Linux swap ( 486 MB) disk: [8.16] => '/dev/sdb', 279.4 GB 1 : /dev/sdb1 : Linux raid autodetect ( 55 MB) 2 : /dev/sdb2 : Linux raid autodetect ( 285640 MB) 3 : /dev/sdb3 : Linux swap ( 486 MB) disk: [8.32] => '/dev/sdc', 279.4 GB 1 : /dev/sdc1 : Linux raid autodetect ( 55 MB) 2 : /dev/sdc2 : Linux raid autodetect ( 285640 MB) 3 : /dev/sdc3 : Linux swap ( 486 MB) disk: [9.0] => '/dev/md', 0 : /dev/md0 : raid1 ( 55 MB) uuid: db3bdcf4:3e4774c7:b2541959:eeef67e0 0 active sync /dev/sda1 1 active sync /dev/sdb1 2 active sync /dev/sdc1 1 : /dev/md1 : raid5 ( 571280 MB) uuid: b9562e24:8a095e31:40702712:19009a40 0 active sync /dev/sda2 1 active sync /dev/sdb2 2 active sync /dev/sdc2 'lspci -v' says: 02:02.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 (rev 02) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18 I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at feaff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at feac0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at feae0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 No problems at all. Regards, -- Mgr. Martin Povolný, soLNet, s.r.o., +420777714458, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/