2 Ide disks on Promise fasstrack under FC3 : not reconized.

Geoffrey Leach geoff at direcway.com
Wed May 4 20:21:15 UTC 2005


On 05.04 10:50, Manu Linux Lookit wrote:
> 
> 
> Alexander Dalloz a écrit :
> > Am Mi, den 04.05.2005 schrieb Manu Linux Lookit um 19:30:
> >
> >
> >>02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378
> (FastTrak
> >>378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
> >
> >
> > So that controller is supported:
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC3/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.ko
> >
> > (btw. you should update your kernel for security reasons)
> >
> >
> >>Yep they are mounted correctly : the bios of the raid card detect
> them
> >>correctly as 2 drives : master / slave
> 
> these are IDE hard drives ... not SATA.
> I 've 2 choices in the promise bios : to do raid or nothing.
> No possibilities to set it in UDMA mode ... : only to do raid or not.

The PDC20378 is a SATA controller.  If you have IDE drives, why would  
you expect it to work for them?  Have a look at the Introduction in the  
FastTrak 378 Quick Start Drive; it mentions only Serial ATA and Ultra  
ATA disks.





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