Re: 2.4.0-test5 problems with Promise ATA100

From: Jeff Nguyen (jeff@aslab.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 22:20:09 EDT

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    Jan,

    Motherboards that have integrated Promise Ultra/100 controller use
    the 20265 chipset. The standard Promise Ultra/100 PCI card uses the
    20267 chipset. However, both chipsets are supported in Andre patch
    dated 08/05 or later. The latest patch is dated on 08/25. You can
    download it at the following site:

    http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/

    Jeff

    ASL Inc.

    At 01:08 PM 8/30/00 +0200, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
    >On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:05:02AM -0400, root wrote:
    >> After compliation with the Promise UDMA chipsets support, with Use DMA
    >> by Default checked, the kernel refuses to acknowledge the existence of
    >> the chip. I have an ASUS K7M m/b that has the controller built in to
    >> the motherboard. After using dmesg I saw no attempts at all to use the
    >> kernel driver at all, no error message, etc. Any ideas?
    >
    >The german computer magazine c't had a review of the Asus A7V board with
    >a Promise ATA100 controller in it's 18/2000 issue. They write:
    >"Nutzer von BeOS oder Linux können den Chip derzeit nicht nutzen"
    >(BeOS or Linux users can't use the chip at present)
    >
    >I'll CC: this mail tho the article's author, perhaps he can tell us more.
    >
    >The onboard Promise controller may contain a different chip than the
    >Promise PCI cards, or it may need a special initialisation.
    >
    >Jan
    >
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