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Re: Sarge and supported chipsets



Anyone? It'd be very reassuring to know for sure, for 100% sure that
the drivers are loaded - and can be found in dmesg.

Thanks, Jim.


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:54:29 +0000, jim biri <jim.biri@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've queried previously about how to find if Sarge has support for a
> particular IDE controller, i.e. for the Promise Ultra ATA-133 TX2 card
> - that runs the PDC20268 chipset.
> 
> Previously,  it had been suggested that I do the following:
> --- modprobde pdc202xx_new
> --- Then look in dmesg
> --- And I should see entries like:
> 
> PDC20268: chipset revision 2
> PDC20268: 100% native mode on irq 10
> 
> However - if I do this, I *don't* see any of the entries above.
> FYI: I don't have the card in, I'd just to be 100% sure before I buy
> said cards that my installation(s) do support them.
> 
> I've done modconf and found the drivers, and it says they are already
> installed - however - I'm just puzzled as to why my previous
> instructions (i.e. the modprobe and dmesg commands) don't seem to
> work.
> 
> Any thoughts anyone?
> 
> Thanks, Jim.
>



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