Using a PDC20246 (Ultra33/DriveDefender/FastTrax)??? README!!!

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:50:29 -0600 (CST)


Greetings Promise card users...........

I am working on a chipset version for this chipset PDC20246/PDC20247
combination. If you are running a development kernel, I need each of you
to send the follow information and reports ::

Card Model :: Ultra33 DriveDefender FastTrax
BIOS revision :: 1.2x ??? 1.0.x

Reply in private and not to the list-serve ONLY.
The information is important but there is no need to clog up everyone's
mailbox with this information. SEE BELOW (*) for details of requested
information

Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The IDE-FNG for Linux
The APC UPS Specialist for Linux

http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.5.0.bin.tar.gz

(*)

Syslog reports, with this type of information ::

PDC20246: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev a0
PDC20246: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20246: ROM enabled at 0xfebd0000
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xef80-0xef87, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xef88-0xef8f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0xeff0-0xeff7,0xefe6 on irq 19
ide1 at 0xefa8-0xefaf,0xebe6 on irq 19

Message reports, with this type of information ::

hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, 6149MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA
hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A, 3079MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=782/128/63, UDMA
ide-tape: hdc <-> ht0, 650KBps, 16*32kB buffer, 3200kB pipeline, 400ms tDSC, DMA
hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm

Contents of pci-config space, with this type of information ::

lspci -bxxxs 00:14.0 (v1.08)

00:14.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20246 (rev 01)
00: 5a 10 33 4d 07 00 00 02 01 00 04 01 00 40 00 00
10: f1 ef 00 00 e5 ef 00 00 a9 ef 00 00 e5 eb 00 00
20: 81 ef 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 01 00 bd fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
50: ee 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60: f0 23 41 00 f0 23 41 00 c4 f3 4f 00 c4 f3 4f 00
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

NOTE that line 60 is what I need most

Lastly I need hdparm -i /dev/hdx information for each device attached to
this card/chipset......

/src/hdparm-3.5/hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, SerialNo=856731490442
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=13328/15/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=512, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=81kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
CurCHS=13328/15/63, CurSects=12594960, LBA=yes
LBA CHS=784/255/63 Remapping, LBA=yes, LBAsects=12594960
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: sword0 sword1 sword2 mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2

Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The IDE-FNG for Linux
The APC UPS Specialist for Linux

http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.5.0.bin.tar.gz

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/