Re: Asus A8V - Promise Controller
> I also have an Asus A8V and the 2.6.13 kernel doesn't seem to see
> the Promise PDC20378, at least not as an IDE interface. There is
> no /proc/ide/ide2. Accesses to /dev/hde and /dev/hdf fail with "No
> such device or address".
Well the 20378 identifies itself as a SATA controller to the PCI system.
The promise_sata driver handles the sata ports just fine, but yeah I
certainly have not seen a pata port on it working with linux. I didn't
actually realize it had one either as I had never considered using more
than one pata device on my machine so far.
> If there is a way to access the IDE interface on the PDC20378, I'd
> like to know how.
It is not currently supported, but there is apparently a prelimenary
patch that tries to add pata support to the 20378 driver in libata. See
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html#tx2 for details.
Len Sorensen
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