From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760035AbYEFSUN (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 14:20:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753012AbYEFST5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 14:19:57 -0400 Received: from sec.bit-consulting.com.ar ([200.69.255.76]:45875 "EHLO sec.bit-consulting.com.ar" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752624AbYEFSTz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 14:19:55 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1451 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 14:19:55 EDT Message-ID: <50723.157.92.44.74.1210096537.squirrel@sec.bit-consulting.com.ar> Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 14:55:37 -0300 (ART) Subject: Promise FT SX8300 support? From: "Diego M. Vadell" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello everybody, Is the RAID card "Promise FT SX8300" supported? I was installing Fedora Core 8 (kernel 2.6.23.1-42.fc8) a server with a Promise FT SX8300 RAID card, but the installation program didn't see it. I tried to find what module makes that card works, and found ( in http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#sx8 ) that Promise SX cards work with the sx8 module (though I'm not really sure this is a SX8). So I used mknod to make the /dev/sx8/* devices , used insmod to load the sx8 module (and checked that they were there with lsmod). But nothing appears in dmesg, and I can't partition it with fdisk (and of course, the installation program does not recognize the disk). I tried to blindly insmod sata_promise, without luck. I found a post here, "SX8 docs (was: The SX4 challenge)" ( http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120058515625262&w=2 ) where James Andrewartha said: "Hi Jeff, What are the chances of the SX8 docs being opened? The vendor GPL driver has bitrotted and the kernel driver offers poor performance or data corruption. IIRC it's not part of libata but its own block device, although you were considering porting it to get ATAPI support?" But the thread seems to finish there. Promise's web page has a module for the card, marked "Partial" ("FastTrak SX4300/SX8300 Partial Linux source code") ( http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productID=148&category=all&os=100 ) . Or maybe it is it's name? I downloaded the "partial" source code and compiled elsewhere. It compiled a module called "napa". Does that ring any bell to anyone? Thanks in advance for any hint here. I'm lost. -- Diego.