Re: how to use promise fastTrak 378 with IDE disks?
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
mkb@amd64:~$ sudo lspci -nn|less -i
Password:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
[1106:0282]
00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
[1106:1282]
00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
[1106:2282]
00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
[1106:3282]
00:00.4 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
[1106:4282]
00:00.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge
[1106:7282]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge
[K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:b188]
00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394
Host Controller [1106:3044] (rev 80)
00:08.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378
(FastTrak 378/SATA 378) [105a:3373] (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4320] (rev 13)
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)
00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
[1106:3104] (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge
[KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:3227]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev
60)
00:11.6 Communication controller [0780]: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97
Modem Controller [1106:3068] (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV43
[GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT] [10de:00f1] (rev a2)
> The next thing to check is which (s)ata modules are loaded; to do this,
> run:
>
> lsmod | grep ata
mkb@amd64:~$ 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
> If you don't see sata_promise listed then you should try this command as
> root
>
> modprobe -v sata_promise
>
> and also this one (right after boot) for more diagnostics:
>
> dmesg | grep ata
>
> Post the output of all these commands and all error messages (if there
> are any) here.
>
> --
> Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
> Florian |
>
>
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