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cnliou9@fastmail.fm

2006-08-15, 1:19 pm

Hi!

I have a box whose board model name is PSCH-L. I don't want to mention
its manufacturer's name due to their bad service quality - they gave me
only a simple anonying answer: "That box supports only Redhat 9.
Sorry!"

That board glues two chips:

Promise PDC20319 controlling 4 SATA slots for hard disks.

Intel FWE6300ESB controlling 2 SATA slots for hard disks.

The board also burns a firmware called FastTrack or FastBuild whose
exact name I don't remember. I can reboot and write it down if asked.
That firmware can configure the disks connected to Promise as RAID.

My problem is that I can't find the devices corresponding to either of
the two chips, with or without 0+1 RAID is configured:

# fdisk /dev/sda

Unable to open /dev/sda

Same to /dev/sdb, sdc, sdd, sde, etc...

Drivers "Promise SATA SX4" and "ata-piix/ICH" are compiled in the boot
kernel. This is the excerpt from the output of dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.14.3 (root@develop.internal.com) (gcc version 2.95.4
20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #2 PREEMPT Sat Aug 5 02:31:01 CST 2006

[snip]

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 91021U2, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 91021U2, ATA DISK drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 20010816 sectors (10245 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=19852/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 20010816 sectors (10245 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=19852/16/63
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: hdb1
libata version 1.12 loaded.
sata_promise version 1.02
PCI: Hardcoded IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:05.0
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8800200 ctl 0xF8800238 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8800280 ctl 0xF88002B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8800300 ctl 0xF8800338 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8800380 ctl 0xF88003B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003
88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors:
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : sata_promise
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003
88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors:
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_promise
ata3: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003
88:407f
ata3: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors:
ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi2 : sata_promise
ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003
88:407f
ata4: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors:
ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi3 : sata_promise
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access


"fdisk -l" lists nothing except /dev/hda1.

Where are the right /dev/ for these SATA disks? Your helps are much
appreciated.

Regards,

CN

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