Re: Promise SATAII 150 TX4

Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt wrote:

> Adding the PCI ID's does get the card recognized, but it doesn't find
> any drives:
> 
>   atapci0: <Promise PDC40518 SATA150 controller> port 0xc400-0xc4ff,0xc000-0xc07f mem 0xe9000000-0xe901ffff,0xe9020000-0xe9020fff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci1
>   atapci0: failed: rid 0x20 is memory, requested 4
>   atapci0: Reserved 0x20000 bytes for rid 0x20 type 3 at 0xe9000000
>   atapci0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x1c type 3 at 0xe9020000
>   atapci0: [MPSAFE]
>   ata2: channel #0 on atapci0
>   ata2: reset tp1 mask=00 ostat0=ff ostat1=ff
>   ata2: [MPSAFE]
> 
> The last three lines are repeated for ata3-5 as well.
> 
> Later, the following shows up:
> 
>   Interrupt storm detected on "irq11: atapci0"; throttling interrupt source
>   ata0-slave: pio=0x0c wdma=0x22 udma=0x46 cable=80pin
>   ata0-slave: setting PIO4 on Intel ICH4 chip
>   ata0-slave: setting UDMA100 on Intel ICH4 chip
>   ad1: <MAXTOR 6L040L2/A93.0500> ATA-5 disk at ata0-slave
>   ad1: 38172MB (78177792 sectors), 77557 C, 16 H, 63 S, 512 B
>   ad1: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, UDMA100
> 
> (ata0-slave/ad1 belongs to atapci1, which is just an onboard ICH4)
> 
> Does this ring a bell and inspire a quick fix, or do you need the hardware
> to fix this?

The SATAII HW is significantly different AFAIK that it needs driver 
changes/support to work properly. I'll ask my contacts at Promise for 
more info and docs...

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-Søren