On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 15:06 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 00:38:10 +0000, michael wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 23:28 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 20:33:50 +0000, michael wrote: > > > > I've a Asus A8V mobo which has a Promise FastTrak 378 controller, > > > > nominally for RAID but I can set it to 'IDE mode' in the BIOS. MS WinXP > > > > will then see the 2 IDE disks connected to it. However, when I boot into > > > > Debian etch (kernel: 2.6.18-5-amd64) I cannot see these 2 disks. I've > > > > looked about and tried a few things which haven't helped so I was > > > > wondering if anybody on here had such a system working? > > > > > > I think this controller is supported by the sata_promise module. Please > > > run "lspci -nn" and verify that the controller has the vendor-ID 0x105a > > > and the device-ID 0x3373. (This should show up as "[105a:3373]"; post > > > the relevant lines here if you are unsure how to interpret them.) > > > > > > Florian, just to confirm it's IDE I wish to use with the Promise > > controller... here's the o/p > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lspci -nn|less -i > > [...] > > > 00:08.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 > > (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) [105a:3373] (rev 02) > > 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA > > RAID Controller [1106:3149] (rev 80) > > 00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. > > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06) > > [...] > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lsmod|grep -i ata > > sata_via 16004 0 > > sata_promise 18180 0 > > libata 106784 2 sata_via,sata_promise > > scsi_mod 153008 2 sbp2,libata > > Hmm, that looks like everything should be fine. What do you see if you > run "ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/"?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0 -> ../../hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part1 -> ../../hda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part10 -> ../../hda10 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part11 -> ../../hda11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part2 -> ../../hda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part3 -> ../../hda3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part5 -> ../../hda5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part6 -> ../../hda6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part7 -> ../../hda7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part8 -> ../../hda8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:0-part9 -> ../../hda9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:1 -> ../../hdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:1-part1 -> ../../hdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:1-part2 -> ../../hdb2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:1-part3 -> ../../hdb3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:1-part5 -> ../../hdb5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:1-part6 -> ../../hdb6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-1:0 -> ../../hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-1:1 -> ../../hdd which doesn't seem to include the 2 *IDE* disks on the promise controller > You can also try to remove the sata_promise module > > modprobe -rv sata_promise > > and load it again directly after that > > modprobe -v sata_promise > > (both these commands need root privileges). > > Are there any (error) messages when you do that? No error messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe -rv sata_promise Password: rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.ko [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe -v sata_promise insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.ko [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Thanks, M > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
