[2.4.28] Enabling a SATA drive (sata_promise.o) with Promise Fastrak S150 TX2Plus SATA PCI card?

[2.4.28] Enabling a SATA drive (sata_promise.o) with Promise Fastrak S150 TX2Plus SATA PCI card?

[Jin Suh]

Hello,

I have a Dell 650/Linux-2.4.28 with a Promise Fastrak S150 TX2Plus SATA PCI
card with 2 250GB Western digital drives connected. Could anyone help me how to
enable the SATA drives? I had 2.4.25 one time and it showed me /dev/hde and
/dev/hdg but the new SATA driver should show as /dev/sdX, right?

I see libata.o and sata_promise.o modules. When I do "modprobe libata and
modprobe sata_promise", I got bunch of "Unresolved symbols". I also downloaded
ft3xx driver and didn't work too. Any idea? I rebooted the same machine with
Suse9.1 (2.6.x kernel). It loaded the libata.o and sata_promise.o and I could
see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb as SATA drives correctly. 
I also have a Intel P5 ICH5, D875PBZ with 2 SATA ports. I also could not enable
the drives with ata_piix.o. Any helps would be appreciated.

Jin

Re: [2.4.28] Enabling a SATA drive (sata_promise.o) with Promise Fastrak S150 TX2Plus SATA PCI card?

[Kenneth MacDonald]

>>>>> "Jin" == Jin Suh <jinssuh@yahoo.com> writes:

    Jin> Hello, I have a Dell 650/Linux-2.4.28 with a Promise Fastrak
    Jin> S150 TX2Plus SATA PCI card with 2 250GB Western digital
    Jin> drives connected. Could anyone help me how to enable the SATA
    Jin> drives? I had 2.4.25 one time and it showed me /dev/hde and
    Jin> /dev/hdg but the new SATA driver should show as /dev/sdX,
    Jin> right?

    Jin> I see libata.o and sata_promise.o modules. When I do
    Jin> "modprobe libata and modprobe sata_promise", I got bunch of
    Jin> "Unresolved symbols". I also downloaded ft3xx driver and
    Jin> didn't work too. Any idea? I rebooted the same machine with
    Jin> Suse9.1 (2.6.x kernel). It loaded the libata.o and
    Jin> sata_promise.o and I could see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb as SATA
    Jin> drives correctly.  I also have a Intel P5 ICH5, D875PBZ with
    Jin> 2 SATA ports. I also could not enable the drives with
    Jin> ata_piix.o. Any helps would be appreciated.

I had this problem when I was using an insmod from busybox compiled up
without the tainted kernel checking feature.  the libata.o module is a
GPLONLY as far as I recall.

So, check your insmod/modprobe versions.

Kenny.

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