Re: how to use promise fastTrak 378 with IDE disks?
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On 03/20/08 17:28, 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.)
>
> The next thing to check is which (s)ata modules are loaded; to do this,
> run:
>
> lsmod | grep ata
>
> 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.
If that's the correct device driver, and it's not in the standard
binary kernel, you will probably have to build your own kernel,
specifically telling it to build this driver.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
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