> > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >Subject: Any experience with Promise PDC20376 and SATA RAID? >From: Reid Spencer <reid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Organization: >Date: 28 May 2003 02:08:12 -0700 >Reply-To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* >Hi RAIDers, > >I'm in the middle of a system upgrade on a machine whose motherboard >failed. While I was at it, I figured I'd upgrade to RAID. However, I >haven't been successful. Before I go out and DOWNgrade my motherboard, >I thought I'd ask if anyone's actually got a Promise PDC20376 to run >with Red Hat 9.0 or any 2.4.20 kernel. > >Here's what I've done. I read this list and then went out and bought: > >Red Hat 9.0 >ASUS A7V8X Mother Board (with Promise PDC20376, yes, 20376, not 20276! ) >2x Seagate 80GB Barracude SATA HD > >I currently have the machine running (kernel 2.4.20-19.3) on its old IDE >drives for /, /usr, /boot but can't get it to recognize the RAID. I've >used the Promise BIOS to configure the two disks in Raid0 (Striped) and >that seems to be fine at the BIOS level. /proc/pci sees the devices: > > Bus 0, device 8, function 0: > RAID bus controller: PCI device 105a:3376 (Promise Technology, Inc.) >(rev 2). > > IRQ 10. > Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=18. > I/O at 0xd400 [0xd43f]. > I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f]. > I/O at 0xb800 [0xb87f]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf3000000 [0xf3000fff]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf2800000 [0xf281ffff]. > >Correspondingly, I've passed ide2=0xd400,0xd000,10 on the "append line" > >All the *PDC202XX kernel CONFIG parameters are turned on in my kernel >(they were on by default in the installed kernel). > >And, yet, I still get: >-bash-2.05b# insmod ataraid >Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-13.9/kernel/drivers/ide/raid/ataraid.o >-bash-2.05b# insmod pdcraid >Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-13.9/kernel/drivers/ide/raid/pdcraid.o >/lib/modules/2.4.20-13.9/kernel/drivers/ide/raid/pdcraid.o: init_module: >No such device >Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, >including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. > You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg >-bash-2.05b# > >I'm assuming that the 2.4.post18 kernels only supported the 202XX chips >while this motherboard has the 203XX chip. Its my fault for misreading >the chip number when I spec'd the motherboard but if you can help, I'd >sure appreciate it. > >Thanks, > >Reid. > > > Read this if you need Promise 's Driver Disk. install Red Hat 9.with 2.4.20-19.3 kernel http://members.rogers.com/sith.warrior/
