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Hans A Eide writes:
>
> > Evan Harris wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a card that mirrors this one from your list:
> >>
> >> Retail name: SATA300 TX4
> >> Chip label: PDC40718-GP SATAII300
> >> Vendor-Device number: 105a:3d17 (rev 02)
> >>
> >> Through testing, I've found linux 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 find the
> ports in
> >> this order (the list is ordered by linux detection):
> >>
> >> 1. silkscreen port 3
> >> 2. silkscreen port 2
> >> 3. silkscreen port 4
> >> 4. silkscreen port 1
> >>> NOTE: the patch I have submitted (
> >>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-
> ide&m=114082978311290&w=2 ) is a
> >>> solution that doesn't know about the older Promise SATA
> controllers,
> >>> which are not affected with the "new wiring" problem, so the older
> >>> controllers will appear screwed if you use it.
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully we will collect enough info about all the SATA Promise
> >>> controllers to distinguish the new and the old wiring controllers,
> >>> then produce a new patch that will be a correct solution to the
> "new
> >>> wiring" problem.
> >
> > Mikael Pettersson has been doing some excellent work recently on
> > sata_promise. If enough data has been collected on this sata_promise
> > port enumeration problem, maybe the data could be collated and
> proposed
> > via Mikael as a patch?
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Sorry, any updates on this?
You should have posted this to linux-ide not linux-scsi.
The Promise SATAII TX4 port enumeration issue is fixed in
current 2.6.22-rc kernels. A patch for 2.6.21 can be found
in <http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=117728096711046&w=2>.
/Mikael
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