Dear Jeff, I'm trying to get a Promise SATA300 TX2plus working on a PPC box running a more or less vanilla 2.6.19 kernel. bash-3.00# lspci -vx 00:0c.0 Class 0180: 105a:3d73 (rev 02) Subsystem: 105a:3d73 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 25 I/O ports at ff80 [size=128] I/O ports at fe00 [size=256] Memory at 00000000affff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at 00000000affc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at 0000000000080000 [disabled] [size=32K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 00: 5a 10 73 3d 07 00 30 02 02 00 80 01 00 80 00 00 10: 81 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 fe 00 00 00 f0 ff af 20: 00 00 fc af 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 10 73 3d 30: 00 00 08 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 01 04 12 The SATA ports are working fine: ... Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD1062200 ctl 0xD1062238 bmdma 0x0 irq 25 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD1062280 ctl 0xD10622B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 25 scsi0 : sata_promise ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 490234752 sectors: LBA48 ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 0 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_promise ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR5 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sda: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) sda: Write Protect is off SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB) sda: Write Protect is off SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 ... but I cannot get access to a drive on the PATA port. What could/should I try? Thanks in advance... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx And now remains That we find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect... -- Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html