Hi Clemens, Clemens Koller wrote:
I guess you mean PDC20378? That controller is supported by the latest 2.6.17.x+ Kernels. Yes, I means the PDC20378. I have tried both 2.6.17.3 and 2.6.18 so far. what does lspci [-v[v]] say? Attached. lspci -v reports a: 03:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 728f Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 11 I/O ports at c800 [size=64] I/O ports at c400 [size=16] I/O ports at c000 [size=128] Memory at f7edf000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at f7ea0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Notice that there might be a difference if you let the Controller's BIOS do the RAID or the Linux driver's. Agreed. That's from the sata_nv driver, which is not the Promise one. It says that there is no signal on the SATA physical connection (no harddrive) on that controller's port. Of course you are right. I should have seen that. Check, where you really connected your harddisks. :-) Good one. Both disks (ST3160023A IDE disks) are connected via an 80-lead IDE flat cable as master/slave to IDE3 on the motherboard The PDC20378 controls IDE3 as well as the two SATA connectors next to it according to all the info from MSI. The driver is part of the SCSI subsystem and is called sata_promise.c As of linux-2.6.17.11 it supports the Promise 2037x, 20319, 20619, 20771, 2057x, 40518 chips.
The config is called SCSI_SATA_PROMISE Yes, I enabled this in .config with SCSI_SATA_PROMISE=y but no luck yet. I will try different settings in the BIOS of both the motherboard and the PDC20378. Check if you are fine with the right kernel drivers. There are/were rumors that the raid functionality might be faster with the native promise drivers. So if really needed, you can later give the promise one a try. But first make sure the one-in-kernel-tree works. Agreed. I guess so. You enabled almost all and everything... maybe you only want to enable the stuff you really have. Considering the fact that I enabled sata_promise I am puzzled by the fact that it does not show up. Good idea. Will do. Perhaps I should disable sata_nv to begin with...
Thanks Clemens for your input. --theo 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7280 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [e4] Vendor Specific Information Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0 Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=2 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4 Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32 Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity+ SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff Memory behind bridge: f3d00000-f3dfffff Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 4: I/O ports at e000 [size=32] 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11 Region 4: I/O ports at e400 [size=32] 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 3 Region 4: I/O ports at e800 [size=32] 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 4: I/O ports at ec00 [size=32] 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 12 Region 0: Memory at f7fffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [58] Debug port 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ Latency: 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=04, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000cfff Memory behind bridge: f3e00000-f7efffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e7c00000-f3bfffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3 Region 0: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 1: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 2: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 3: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 4: I/O ports at fc00 [size=16] Region 5: Memory at 50000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11 Region 4: I/O ports at 0c00 [size=32] 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] Region 1: I/O ports at d800 [size=64] Region 2: Memory at f7fffa00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Region 3: Memory at f7fff900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 728c Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 (63750ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3 Region 0: Memory at f3de0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Region 2: I/O ports at ac00 [size=32] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME- 03:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80960RM [i960RM Bridge] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Bus: primary=03, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=32 Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity+ SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- 03:01.1 Class ff00: Intel Corporation 80960RM [i960RM Microprocessor] (rev 02) (prog-if 01) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. SuperTrak SX6000 I2O CPU Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Expansion ROM at e7c00000 [disabled] [size=64K] 03:03.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo3 2000 PCI Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M] Region 1: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Region 2: I/O ports at cc00 [size=256] Expansion ROM at e7c10000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 03:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 728f Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 96 (1000ns min, 4500ns max), Cache Line Size: 580 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at c800 [size=64] Region 1: I/O ports at c400 [size=16] Region 2: I/O ports at c000 [size=128] Region 3: Memory at f7edf000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 4: Memory at f7ea0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 03:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 565d Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (8000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at f7ede800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Region 1: I/O ports at bc00 [size=128] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-