On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 23:28 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 20:33:50 +0000, michael wrote: > > I've a Asus A8V mobo which has a Promise FastTrak 378 controller, > > nominally for RAID but I can set it to 'IDE mode' in the BIOS. MS WinXP > > will then see the 2 IDE disks connected to it. However, when I boot into > > Debian etch (kernel: 2.6.18-5-amd64) I cannot see these 2 disks. I've > > looked about and tried a few things which haven't helped so I was > > wondering if anybody on here had such a system working? > > I think this controller is supported by the sata_promise module. Please > run "lspci -nn" and verify that the controller has the vendor-ID 0x105a > and the device-ID 0x3373. (This should show up as "[105a:3373]"; post > the relevant lines here if you are unsure how to interpret them.)
Florian, just to confirm it's IDE I wish to use with the Promise controller... here's the o/p [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lspci -nn|less -i Password: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge [1106:0282] 00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge [1106:1282] 00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge [1106:2282] 00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge [1106:3282] 00:00.4 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge [1106:4282] 00:00.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge [1106:7282] 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:b188] 00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller [1106:3044] (rev 80) 00:08.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) [105a:3373] (rev 02) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4320] (rev 13) 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller [1106:3149] (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81) 00:10.4 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:3227] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 60) 00:11.6 Communication controller [0780]: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller [1106:3068] (rev 80) 00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100] 00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101] 00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102] 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT] [10de:00f1] (rev a2) > The next thing to check is which (s)ata modules are loaded; to do this, > run: > > lsmod | grep ata [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lsmod|grep -i ata sata_via 16004 0 sata_promise 18180 0 libata 106784 2 sata_via,sata_promise scsi_mod 153008 2 sbp2,libata > If you don't see sata_promise listed then you should try this command as > root > > modprobe -v sata_promise > > and also this one (right after boot) for more diagnostics: > > dmesg | grep ata > > Post the output of all these commands and all error messages (if there > are any) here. > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
