[Bug 450750] New: MSI K9A2 Motherboard has a Promise T3 drive controller. SuSE sees PATA, but not SATA drives.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750 Summary: MSI K9A2 Motherboard has a Promise T3 drive controller. SuSE sees PATA, but not SATA drives. Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: RC 1 Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: dukebright@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer No other Linux distro I have tried does any better, but I really like SuSE, so I'm asking you to see if you can do anything about this. The MSI K9A2 motherboard (Athlon64) has two drive controllers. The first deals with 4 SATA drives, and SuSE handles them exactly as it should. (One problem with earlier SuSEs was that the (SATA) CD-Rom drive locked, and couldn't be ejected after a SuSE LiveCD was shut down. A power-off reboot was necessary to unlock it. SuSE 11.1 RC1 has fixed that.) The second controller is identified by MSI as a Promise T3 controller. I believe it handles 4 drives: two PATA and two SATA drives. RC1 sees the PATA drives, but not the SATA drives. The Promise intends optionally to use the two SATA drives in a RAID configuration. However, I have only a single SATA drive and wish to use it in non-RAID form. Windows XP and Windows XP-64 have no trouble accessing that drive, but no Linux I have tried (including Ubuntu, Debian Etch, System Rescue CD, or Ubuntu 8.10 Ultimate Edition) is able to see that drive. I have found some internet references to this problem: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/drivers-for-promise-pdc... http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/33755 One person claims to have improved the driver: http://www.colinmackenzie.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12:promise-satasas-driver-update-tx4650tx2650&catid=8:rotator&Itemid=7 But his advice is well beyond my skill level. Furthermore, the discussions I have found are unclear whether the same software works for the imbedded chips on the K9A2 motherboard and the PCI[?] boards Promise sells for use in other PC systems. If you think something can solve this access problem, I would be happy to try it on my hardware, but I am not sufficiently skilled in the programming art to compile drivers. Thanks for your time! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750 Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |teheo@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750#c1 Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |dukebright@gmail.com --- Comment #1 from Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> 2008-12-02 19:28:24 MST --- Can you post the result of "lspci -nn"? Is it a marvell chip? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750 User dukebright@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750#c2 Duke Winsor <dukebright@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|dukebright@gmail.com | --- Comment #2 from Duke Winsor <dukebright@gmail.com> 2008-12-02 20:46:25 MST --- Created an attachment (id=257557) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=257557) lspci -nn run in RC1 This is the complete lspci -nn, in case it helps. The relevant device is third from the bottom: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC42819 [FastTrak TX2650/TX4650] [105a:3f20] So it's not a Marvell unless that is an alias. Thanks for your interest! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750 User dukebright@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750#c3 --- Comment #3 from Duke Winsor <dukebright@gmail.com> 2008-12-02 20:48:42 MST --- (From update of attachment 257557) This is the complete lspci -nn, in case it helps. The relevant device is third from the bottom: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC42819 [FastTrak TX2650/TX4650] [105a:3f20] So it's not a Marvell unless that is an alias. Thanks for your interest! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750#c4 Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #4 from Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> 2008-12-02 20:50:28 MST --- The commit message explains most... ahci: Add support for Promise PDC42819 Add an appropriate entry for the Promise PDC42819 controller. It has an AHCI mode and so far works correctly with board_ahci. This chip is found on Promise's FastTrak TX2650 (2 port) and TX4650 (4 port) software-based RAID cards (for which there is a binary driver, t3sas) and can be found on some motherboards, for example the MSI K9A2 Platinum, which calls the chip a Promise T3 controller. Although this controller also supports SAS devices, its default bootup mode is AHCI and the binary driver has to do some magic to get the chip into the appropriate mode to drive SAS disks. Seeing as no documentation is provided by Promise, adding this entry to the ahci driver allows the controller to be useful to people as a SATA controller (with no ill effects on the system if a SAS disk is connected - probing of the port just times out with "link online but device misclassified"), without having to resort to using the binary driver. Users who require SAS or the proprietary software raid can get this functionality using the binary driver. I'm sorry but I don't think we can improve support for the controller w/o information from Promise. :-( Resolving as WONTFIX for now. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750 User teheo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450750#c5 --- Comment #5 from Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> 2008-12-02 20:53:04 MST --- But then again, it's kind of strange. Are you sure the PATA ports are hanging off the promise controller? It would be very unusual to have SATA/PATA mixed support on a chip which can also do SAS. Plus, why would the manufacturer put extra chip w/ PATA support when SB600 already has a PATA chip. Can you please post /var/log/boot.msg? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
participants (1)
-
bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com