Promise SATA

[Wayne Steenburg]

Wayne Steenburg said:
> I recently read on this list that the fastrack series of controllers
> would be supported in kernel version 2.4.22-1.2135.  I am using an
> SATA150 TX2plus. My card is recognized in Hardware Browser, however my
> hard disc is not.  I cannot mount it either.  It tells me that
/dev/sda2
> is not a valid block device. I'm not sure if it's a deficiency in the
> new(er) kernel or if I'm not doing something correctly. I'm still a
> relative newbie.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

> Does dmesg log anything useful?  IIUC the new kernel uses the ATA
> interface so I don't think it will be /dev/sd?, but I could be > > >
wrong.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper 

The only drives listed are hda and hdc which are my ATA100 and DVD
drives respectively.  The only entry with 'serial' in it was:

Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled

which I assume is just the driver for the serial ports.

Wayne Steenburg