Hello Alan!! i am the problem with the PDC20267 Chipset. I used Red Hat 8 with standard kernel and work the promise [root@dakota ide]# cat pdc202xx PDC20267 Chipset. ------------------------------- General Status --------------------------------- Burst Mode : enabled Host Mode : Normal Bus Clocking : 33 PCI Internal IO pad select : 10 mA Status Polling Period : 0 Interrupt Check Status Polling Delay : 0 --------------- Primary Channel ---------------- Secondary Channel ------------- enabled enabled 66 Clocking enabled disabled Mode MASTER Mode MASTER FIFO Empty FIFO Empty --------------- drive0 --------- drive1 -------- drive0 ---------- drive1 ------ DMA enabled: yes yes yes yes DMA Mode: UDMA 4 UDMA 4 NOTSET NOTSET PIO Mode: PIO 4 PIO 4 NOTSET NOTSET [root@dakota ide]# i am downloaded the kernel 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-rc1 and i am set this options for IDE CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y # CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST is not set CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y <- this options force IDE detections CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y # CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set # CONFIG_DMA_NONPCI is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT is not set the kernel 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-rc1 NO detect the ide channels and mi system crashes wath is the problem? i am select all correct options but no work... regards :) dakota@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Administrador Servidor dakotabcn.net y nodo red ECOLNET dakota.escomposlinux.org LINUX Registrered USER 93707 :) P.o Box 579 08913 Badalona (Barcelona) SPAIN firmas GnuPG en http://pgp.escomposlinux.org/ dakota@xxxxxxxxx || dakota@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Equipos PIV 2.2 Ghz - 1.5 Gb RAM - W-XP Pro Dual PIII 1Ghz - 1 Gb Ram - Linux Red Hat 8.0 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Cox" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Javi Pardo (DAKOTA)" <dakota@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Andre Hedrick" <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 5:03 PM Subject: Re: promise NEITHER IDE PORT ENABLED > On Gwe, 2003-05-02 at 22:58, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > Andre, Alan, > > > > could you please take a look at this? I thought the IDE code in > > 2.4.21-rc1 is able to force enable the ports of a promise controller. > > It can - if you set the configuration option to do so >