promise sata300 TX4 install

[sergio_101]

i have installed this card, and i have installed one drive on it, a western digital WD1001FALS 1TB drive...

the card seems to be recognized:

root@skipper temp]# /sbin/lspci | grep Promise
00:08.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02)
[root@skipper temp]#

when the system boots, i see the promise bios pop up, and it recognizes the drive ok...

but when i try to find it on the machine (it should be /dev/sdc) nothing can see it..

looking further, i am getting this:

[root@skipper temp]# dmesg | grep sdc
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors (1000205 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors (1000205 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sdc: unknown partition table
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 3
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] READ CAPACITY failed
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense not available.
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Asking for cache data failed
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 244190645
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 244190645

anyone have any ideas?

thanks!

[sergio_101]

one more tidbit of information:

Linux skipper 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 13:47:21 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[marcrblevins]

Very new card to Fedora 7? Can you upgrade to Fedora 9, I said Fedora 9 cause Fedora 10 will be release next month.

[sej7278]

i found that some cards such as sil3114 and earlier via/intel controllers can't recognise 1tb drives, i had a few that don't even see 750gb drives.

never had a problem with 500gb drives with promise tx2, sil3114, ich5r, via/nforce controllers......

my intel ich9r recognises my samsung spinpoint f1 1tb fine, but that's a pretty modern motherboard.

i don't think its a linux problem as i have the same issues across centos5, fedora7, fedora9; it more likely a motherboard/chipset/bios problem - at least was for me.

[tpol]

Hello.

Never ending story with SATA-PCI... :)

I have a Promise SATA300TX2pro and a Samsung 750Gig drive on it. The controller recognize the drive and it seems that all be fine... but...

Now I installed F10 on the drive, Anaconda see the drive and the partition-layout is created, the packets installed, everythink looks great... had installed grub into MBR of /dev/sda, the /boot is created with ext3 file system... but when the BIOS and Controller finished there stuff came the message "PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT".... I had treid to install grub into the MBR of /dev/sda1, that didnt work. So I installed grub2, but the press-any-key message came again...

What can it be that F10 will install everythink well, but cant boot from the drive, controller, whatever???