Goswin wrote:
I got 2 new SATA drives and pluged them into the onboard Promise PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) and run badblocks on them (both in parallel). The write test completed fine but read&compare locked up my system. I repeated with a read-only test and again it locked up with an DMA timeout. Does anyone have the onboard Promise successfully in use on an Asus K8V board?
+++++++++++++++++++++++ Goswin- Mine is the PDC20378 aka TX2 with 2SATA+PATA controlled by the sata_promise kernel module. The PDC20376 is probably very similar, maybe 133 vs 150 or something trivial. That should be listed as TX4/TX2 in the kernel config under low level scsi drivers. The TX4 is a 4SATA chip and uses the same driver as the TX2. The TX2 and TX4 were add-in cards using the PDC2037x chips. I built a kernel with the promise enabled and there were no problems. Maybe the K8 Motherboard List should list sata_promise not PDC2037x to be consistent. The Promise SATA is production code and aught to be working. PATA maybe not depending on the kernel, never did try. editor@postscript.port5.com --AMD Athlon64 @2.4Ghz Corsair TwinX1024-3200XL @480Mhz DDR ASUS A8V Deluxe Pro ASUS Radeon A9250Ge/Td/256 Creative SB Live WD Raptor SATA Maxtor PATA IBM/Okidata Color PostScript3 Lexmark Mono PostScript2 Debian GNU/Linux debian-amd64/pure64 sid Kernel 2.6.10 XFree86 4.3.0 Xorg X11R6.8.2 1.5 Mb DSL