mreuther@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Phil, there is a patch in Jeff Garzik's libata-dev patch queue to support PATA > on Promise SATA hosts. I haven't tried it out myself, but it may cover your > case. > > Go to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/ and grab the > latest patch for 2.4 or 2.6. If you grab 2.6.13-rc7-libata1.patch.bz2, it > applies cleanly to 2.6.13. > > Please report back the results! Finally got around to trying this. It works great! I patched 2.6.15.6 with this patch, and everything seems to be fully functional as far as the PATA drive on that controller is concerned. However, a few concerns: 1. The kernel raid autodetection doesn't work here. Though I'm not clear if it supports going across controllers. I set up a raid-1 array wtih a drive on my other controller, set the partition type to autodetect, but a reboot left my array with just the drive not on the promise card. 2. Currently my BIOS's ATA settings are "SATA mode" - I also have "PATA mode" "SATA+PATA mode". I tried SATA+PATA and I get a bunch of IRQ16 ignored messages, a few tracebacks, and a LOT of slowness. I also get 3 scsiI haven't tried the PATA mode. Note that my box has 82801EB/ER controller which is currently my primary contoller as well as the Promise PDC20378 which is what I'm using this patch for. Any help would be appreciated. -- Phil Dibowitz phil@xxxxxxxx Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess
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