| Summary: | Requesting addition of FT3xx module (FastTrak 376/Promise PDC20376) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Bryan Stine (RETIRED) <battousai> |
| Component: | Everything | Assignee: | Bob Johnson (RETIRED) <livewire> |
| Status: | RESOLVED REMIND | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | FT3xx source distribution (tar.bz2) | ||
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Description
Bryan Stine (RETIRED)
2003-07-22 15:24:35 UTC
Created attachment 14890 [details]
FT3xx source distribution (tar.bz2)
This is the ft3xx driver, converted from a DOS-format zip to a UNIX-format
tar.bz2.
was announced on lkml today if you havent seen yet ,that promise has gpl'ed this driver now, and a few ppl (-ac,etc) are already working on it heavily. Im trying to think why the 2.4.21-gss would work good for you. This is a kernel that i havent even released in portage. Its pretty vanilla in reality, besides xfs,evms,etc. You might check out the kernel config of the livecd. /proc/config Wow...that's unbelievably good news for me :-) I was using the config (/proc/config) from your kernel with genkernel and make oldconfig on the kernels I tried. The fact that it's pretty vanilla could be why it's operating well for me. There may be a patch in the portage kernels that aren't working well with that driver for some reason. Even so, I should be able to make do for now until Alan and the others get a good driver working in-kernel. Thanks for the great news. Should this be closed, resolved? I've got the URL here for the LKML announcement in the archives, just in case someone comes here searching for something about that driver. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.2/2039.html The file is linked in that article. Upon closer inspection and failed attempts to load that module, it seems like that's not matching what I want. The listed chipsets that the driver supports is: PDC20318 Promise SATA150 TX4 PDC20375 Promise SATA150 TX2plus PDC20378 Promise SATA 378 PDC20618 Promise Ultra 618 Unfortunately, the PDC20376 isn't listed. So, I'm still left looking for a driver, evidently. will see what happens with the recent release Roger that. Since the PDC20375 is supported, it may be much easier for them now to get the software RAID support required and have a semi-elegant driver solution in the kernel for their RAID-enabled chipsets. Just a little update... I've found a third-party patch from some Mandrake list while Googling around for some news. The patch is here: http://www.mail-archive.com/confirme@linux-mandrake.com/msg23265/pdc-ultra.patch And its parent post is here (in French): http://www.mail-archive.com/confirme@linux-mandrake.com/msg23265.html This patch allows the driver to recognize my FastTrak 376 and the SATA drive connected to it, however the SCSI transfer fails upon attempting to mount the root filesystem. I'm currently looking to further solutions. Another update...this time a good one. I've got the pdc-ultra driver working under multiple kernels reliably. It turned out to be a rather ugly problem with ACPI PCI routing, solved by pci=noacpi. Hopefully that driver and one of the PDC20376 patches will make it into a mainstream kernel in due time. Until then, this is a good open-source solution for FastTrak 376 users. |