Here is an excerpt from /proc/pci:
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 2).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0x9400 [0x9407].
I/O at 0x9000 [0x9003].
I/O at 0x8800 [0x8807].
I/O at 0x8400 [0x8403].
I/O at 0x8000 [0x803f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd5000000 [0xd501ffff].
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265 (rev
2).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0x7800 [0x7807].
I/O at 0x7400 [0x7403].
I/O at 0x7000 [0x7007].
I/O at 0x6800 [0x6803].
I/O at 0x6400 [0x643f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd4800000 [0xd481ffff].
> Now if you have a device that reports it storage class as RAID then it may
> misbehave. Otherwise, if it is reporting "Unknown Mass Storage" then you
> have an Ultra/ATA controller.
It would seem that it reports itself as both.
>
> There are two different BIOS cores for each design.
> Linux cleanly supports the BIOS cores know as "Ultra" and not the ones
> know as "Fasttrak".
Is there a plan to support the Fasttrak BIOS core at some point (I
hope..)
So I guess I'm stuck with loading their proprietary module whenever I
want
to use the drive....
But thanks for the clarification.
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