[ILUG] Promise 20376

[Stephane Dudzinski]

Paul Jakma said:
> It's a SATA controller....
>
> Devices are _always_ on their own "channel". I still dont understand
> why it's better to have them called hda/hdc than hda/hdb.

Agreed, besides, kernel 2.6 picks them up as SCSI devices although they
are now declared as normal drives in the controller bios :

libata version 1.02 loaded.
sata_promise version 0.92
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE182B200 ctl 0xE182B238 bmdma 0x0 irq 10
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE182B280 ctl 0xE182B2B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 10
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003
88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors (lba48)
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_promise
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003
88:207f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors (lba48)
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi2 : sata_promise
  Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 6Y160M0    Rev: 1.02
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
  Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 6Y160M0    Rev: 1.02
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05


Heeeeelp !
Steph

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