> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:13:12 +0300 (EEST), Tomi Orava wrote: >>I'm currently running with FC6 2990 kernel, which is based on >>2.6.21-rc3-git10 and contains also your 1.5Gbps limit patch and Promise >>Sata300TX4 port enumeration patch (does anybody know what might be the >>reason that port enumeration patch has not been accepted in to main line >>?). > > Because that patch hasn't been submitted to linux-ide, > Jeff, or me? Hmm, I quess it was submitted only to kernel mailing-list. > I've seen fairly old discussions about the enumeration > order issue on 4-port cards, but no patches. It seems that original patch was written by Milan Kupcevic: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/24/316 I updated the patch for the more current kernel versions (obvious changes): --- linux-2.6.20.i686/drivers/ata/sata_promise.c 2007-04-13 16:34:26.000000000 +0300 +++ linux-2.6.20.i686/drivers/ata/sata_promise.c.mod 2007-04-13 16:39:29.000000000 +0300 @@ -928,8 +928,13 @@ /* Fall through */ case board_20319: probe_ent->n_ports = 4; - pdc_ata_setup_port(&probe_ent->port[2], base + 0x300, base + 0x600); - pdc_ata_setup_port(&probe_ent->port[3], base + 0x380, base + 0x700); + // pdc_ata_setup_port(&probe_ent->port[2], base + 0x300, base + 0x600); + // pdc_ata_setup_port(&probe_ent->port[3], base + 0x380, base + 0x700); + + pdc_ata_setup_port(&probe_ent->port[0], base + 0x380, base + 0x700); + pdc_ata_setup_port(&probe_ent->port[1], base + 0x280, base + 0x500); + pdc_ata_setup_port(&probe_ent->port[2], base + 0x200, base + 0x400); + pdc_ata_setup_port(&probe_ent->port[3], base + 0x300, base + 0x600); break; case board_2057x: hp->flags |= PDC_FLAG_GEN_II; -------------------------------------------------------------------- And the above patch seems to work properly on my machine. 00:0e.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 16 I/O ports at ec00 [size=128] I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Memory at fe900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at fe800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at fe600000 [disabled] [size=32K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Regards, Tomi Orava - 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