p4c800-e deluxe and promise IDE controller

elroacho · 06-10-2006, 09:15 AM

Sup,

I've been digging for this for a long time so please bare with me. First, a pic of the mobo in question:
http://www.gb.tomshardware.com/NewsI...board-1024.jpg

On the bottom right is IDE1, IDE2, and the Floppy Controller. On the bottom left is 2 sets of SATA controllers and a single horizontal IDE controller. One set of SATA's runs through the boards chipset (ICH5R). The other set of SATA's shares with the single IDE connector on the promise 378 controller. None of my drives are set up in RAID, strictly single storage drives.

The problem is that in linux (SUSE 10.1, Slax, etc), any IDE drive connected to the promise controller doesn't show up, but the SATA drives on the same controller do. I'm beating my head against a brick wall over this, as most articles pertaining to this deal with RAID situations.

In short, I have 6 harddrives, 3 IDE and 3 SATA. 2 IDE's connected to IDE1 (hda and hdb). 2 SATA drives connected to the non-promise controller (sda and sdb). 1 SATA drive (sdc) and 1 IDE drive (???) connected to the promise controller. The only drive giving me trouble is the 1 IDE drive on the promise controller, it's not there. It doesn't show up in fdisk, in dev, or on a verbose boot. They all show up and function in windows 2K/XP.

Just wondering if anybody else has come across this problem aswell and could possibly point me in the right direction. I came across promise's partial source code for a similar chipset, but that whole "partial source code" thing raises red flags for me. Plus, that was to get the RAID 0,1 functionality working, I just want to use it as another normal IDE drive for storage.

I'm not infront of my box atm, but I can post the "/sbin/lspci" info tomorrow if it will help.

Thanx in advance!

David the H. · 06-11-2006, 07:18 AM

You probably don't have a module for the ide raid controller installed, which may be different from the sata controller. The kernel needs to be able to support the channel, even if you aren't using it for raid. lspci should tell you what the controller is exactly, then you just have to find the proper driver module for it, if any.

elroacho · 06-11-2006, 05:15 PM

Thanx for the reply, I'm looking into it. Here is my lspci info:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT] (rev a1)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM)
03:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
03:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
03:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
03:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
03:0d.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)

Seems like "03:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)" whould be the culprit.

I've looked up and down for 20378, 378, TX4000, etc drivers/modules and found nothing but RAID 0/1 type drivers. Perhaps I overlooked something? All help is appreciated!

Thanx