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

Uh i'm not too familiar with the 2.4 kernel but i'm gonna say its somewhat like the 2.6, with the 2.6 you compile in the drivers for sata drives....if you want todo this just do make menuconfig whereever you have the source..and then do drivers>devices...i think is where you find the sata..then it should be there..under /dev/sdXX....perhaps the pci card is somethign to deal with it....for that i believe there is a pci harddrive driver in the kernel, look at that. should be around where i told you to compile in the sata drivers.
Daum