Folks, Ever since upgrading to RedHat-7.2 from 7.1, I've been unable to use the disk on my Promise Raid controller. I used to use the Promise binary SMP driver . . . here's how it used to work: dmesg when booting: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0 PDC20267: chipset revision 2 PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20267: ROM enabled at 0xe3000000 PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode. PDC20267: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) hda: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 91303D6, ATA DISK drive hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: 25450992 sectors (13031 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1584/255/63, UDMA(33) insmodding the driver: [root@hewes darren]# insmod ft Using /lib/modules/2.4.2-2smp/misc/ft.o And the dmesg from that: Promise FastTrak Series Linux Driver v1.20 (build 9) scsi3 : FASTTRAK Vendor: Promise Model: 1+0 Span Rev: 1.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 120103137 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB) sdb: sdb1 And things were peachy. That was on RedHat's 2.4.2-2smp kernel. Now, on 2.4.9-31smp with the ataraid drivers (promise does not have an SMP binary driver yet, only a UP one) I see: PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 50 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0 PDC20267: chipset revision 2 PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20267: ROM enabled at 0xe3000000 PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode. PDC20267: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) hda: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 91303D6, ATA DISK drive hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 blk: queue c03c0ba0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03c0ba0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33) blk: queue c03c0cdc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03c0cdc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdb: 25450992 sectors (13031 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1584/255/63, UDMA(33) [root@hewes ATARAID]# insmod ataraid.o Warning: loading ataraid.o will taint the kernel: no license [root@hewes ATARAID]# lsmod | egrep ata ataraid 6928 0 (unused) [root@hewes ATARAID]# insmod pdcraid.o Warning: loading pdcraid.o will taint the kernel: no license pdcraid.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters [root@hewes ATARAID]# The dmesg from this is: Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found Can anyone tell me if I'm doing anything wrong? Or will it just not work? -darren
