On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 15:11:42 +0000, michael wrote: > 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?
[...] > > > 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 [ snip: partitions hda1 - hda11 ] > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 15:04 pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-0:1 -> ../../hdb [ snip: partitions hdb1 - 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 Hdc and hdd are two more (unpartitioned) drives connected to the VIA VT6420 controller? > which doesn't seem to include the 2 *IDE* disks on the promise > controller Maybe the problem is related to the fact that the FastTrak 378 controller (00:08.0) does not have an associated "IDE interface" entry, in contrast to the 00:0f.0/00:0f.1 combination of the VIA chipset. Unfortunately I don't know how the FastTrak 378 is supposed to be seen by the system if everything works as intended. [...] > 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]:~$ Is there anything in the syslog? Run "grep -i ata /var/log/syslog" or "dmesg | grep ata". Did you try to boot your system with the controller set to normal operation (i.e. not IDE-mode) in the BIOS? A live-CD (e.g. Knoppix) with a newer version of the kernel might also be worthwhile to check out. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
