Problems with PROMISE Card in Linux

[Dave Bour]

Paul,
For what it's worth, on my Promise SATA/IDE card under Fedora 2, the IDE
drive (as dos the SATA drive) show up as SCSI devices, rather than IDE.
D.

Dave Bour
Desktop Solution Center
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Paul King
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 12:43 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Problems with PROMISE Card in Linux


On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 23:50, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
> Assuming that you only have one such card in your system then:
> 
> 1st Channel (Master/Slave) = hde/hdf
> 2nd Channel (Master/Slave) = hdg/hdh

A screen dump of my attempts at finding these disks, which all turn up the
same error: Unable to open /dev/hd{whatever}

On my system, hda and hdb are hard drives, and hdc and hdd are my CD-ROMs. I
have a 5th storage device on the PCI-IDE Promise card which has the hard
disk which is useable on Windows but not Linux (yet).

> 
> Try checking /proc/partitions to see what that turns up.  If the 
> kernel detected the drive and read the partition table then the info 
> you need to mount it is in there.

I just get hda, hdb, and hdc, going by the major and minor numbers:

major minor  #blocks  name
  22     0     439374 hdc
   3     0   39088896 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
   3     1    5863693 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
   3     2    5124735 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
   3     3   14056875 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
   3     4   14040810 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4
   3    64   39088896 ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc
   3    65   20480008 ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
   3    66    7168392 ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2
   3    67    7168392 ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part3
   3    68    4271904 ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part4

I don't know why /dev/hdd (the second CD-ROM) isn't listed there.

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