I recently purchased a promise SATA 150Tx controller card for my system
And well it doesn't work just yet.


My Fedora Core 2 system sees it as a sata_promise.
Is that the right module? I see alot of talk about libata.
When the system tries to load the sata_promise carrd I get alot of unknown symbol
messages.

sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_qc_complete
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_std_bios_param
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_tf_load_mmio
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_tf_read_mmio
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_exec_command_mmio
sata_promise: Unknown symbol sata_phy_reset
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_check_status_mmio
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_bus_reset
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_port_probe
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_scsi_slave_config
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_fill_sg
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_scsi_error
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_port_disable
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_scsi_queuecmd
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_port_stop
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_pci_remove_one
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_device_add
sata_promise: Unknown symbol ata_port_start

Another stupid question. My SATA drive I have, when the controller card starts to
work. It will be on /dev/sda right?

Anyone that might have any hints or help I would appreciate it.

Ok seemed to solve the unresolved symbol problem.

Now, quick question.

I have an SATA hard drive connected to the Promise Card.
Now since up to now I couldn't properly use the card I couldn't see the drive
so the drive isn't formated.

However when i boot it doesn't auto load the module for the promise card.
Two questions, I know I can modprobe it every time I load, but what would
i add to the modprobe.conf to get it to load on every boot.

Also if I formated the drive and tried to mount it every load, fstab,
would that cause the module to autoload every time?

Thanks again..

Bump,

Looking for a way to load sata_promise module at boot time so fstab can mount drive connected threw sata_promise card.