Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:02:13 -0800 | From | James Lamanna <> | Subject | Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver |
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Here is an excerpt from /proc/pci:
Bus 0, device 11, function 0: RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 2). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x9400 [0x9407]. I/O at 0x9000 [0x9003]. I/O at 0x8800 [0x8807]. I/O at 0x8400 [0x8403]. I/O at 0x8000 [0x803f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd5000000 [0xd501ffff]. Bus 0, device 17, function 0: Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265 (rev 2). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x7800 [0x7807]. I/O at 0x7400 [0x7403]. I/O at 0x7000 [0x7007]. I/O at 0x6800 [0x6803]. I/O at 0x6400 [0x643f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd4800000 [0xd481ffff].
> Now if you have a device that reports it storage class as RAID then it may > misbehave. Otherwise, if it is reporting "Unknown Mass Storage" then you > have an Ultra/ATA controller.
It would seem that it reports itself as both.
> > There are two different BIOS cores for each design. > Linux cleanly supports the BIOS cores know as "Ultra" and not the ones > know as "Fasttrak".
Is there a plan to support the Fasttrak BIOS core at some point (I hope..) So I guess I'm stuck with loading their proprietary module whenever I want to use the drive....
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