Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 18:40:10 EST


On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, James Lamanna wrote:

> 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].

No each device reports itself differently here.
Bus 0, device 11, function 0: == 20267
Bus 0, device 17, function 0: == 20265

You bought a Fasttrak 100 and your mainboard came with an Ultra 100

>
> 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....

Yep, until they realize that their simple IP is nothing, and want to
export the raid calls to the Linux Raid Engine, you are "stuck".

> But thanks for the clarification.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
CTO Timpanogas Research Group
EVP Linux Development, TRG
Linux ATA Development

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