Can anyone recommend a SATA/Ultra ATA controller that works with FC 3?

[irinotecan]

OK, so I have done all of my homework, and have come to realize, to my dismay, that my Promise FastTrak SATA150 TX2plus controller is not supported for FC 3 :mad:

I really, really would like to get rid of Windoze once and for all :( But, I'm stuck with my Maxtor 250GB Ultra ATA HD, and without Linux support for it, I'm SOL.

At this point, from what I have read, Promise keeps delaying and delaying driver support for this card for some unknown reason. It seems that this card has been supplanted by newer cards in their lineup (at least by the TX4), so I have little confidence in them ever bothering to get around to finally releasing drivers for this card :(

SO: What I would like to know is, can anyone recommend an affordable PCI Serial ATA controller that also has a Parallel (Ultra) ATA connector on it, that is known to work with FC 3?

TIA.

[cybrjackle]

OK, so I have done all of my homework, and have come to realize, to my dismay, that my Promise FastTrak SATA150 TX2plus controller is not supported for FC 3 :mad:

I really, really would like to get rid of Windoze once and for all :( But, I'm stuck with my Maxtor 250GB Ultra ATA HD, and without Linux support for it, I'm SOL.

At this point, from what I have read, Promise keeps delaying and delaying driver support for this card for some unknown reason. It seems that this card has been supplanted by newer cards in their lineup (at least by the TX4), so I have little confidence in them ever bothering to get around to finally releasing drivers for this card :(

SO: What I would like to know is, can anyone recommend an affordable PCI Serial ATA controller that also has a Parallel (Ultra) ATA connector on it, that is known to work with FC 3?

TIA.


$ /sbin/lspci | grep Promise
00:0d.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20375 (SATA150 TX2plus) (rev 02)


Are you sure it's not supported? I have 2x160GB SATA drives connected in Raid 1 for backups and such ;) I have FC3 on here up until this morning and moved it to CentOS-Beta4 just because it's going to be a server anyway and fc3 moves to fast for my server box to want to change.

But, like I said, FC3 installs and works just fine on it. One thing that I did different that might be what your running into, I didn't use the PATA connection on the card. I used a 20G PATA drive for /boot / & swap on on e of my mobo's ide channels and used the 2 160G off the card for LVM/Raid1 setup.

[irinotecan]

$ /sbin/lspci | grep Promise
00:0d.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20375 (SATA150 TX2plus) (rev 02)


Are you sure it's not supported? I have 2x160GB SATA drives connected in Raid 1 for backups and such ;) I have FC3 on here up until this morning and moved it to CentOS-Beta4 just because it's going to be a server anyway and fc3 moves to fast for my server box to want to change.

But, like I said, FC3 installs and works just fine on it. One thing that I did different that might be what your running into, I didn't use the PATA connection on the card. I used a 20G PATA drive for /boot / & swap on on e of my mobo's ide channels and used the 2 160G off the card for LVM/Raid1 setup.

Yeah, after a little more research, this indeed seems to be the core of my problem: libata does not appear to currently support the PATA connector with the sata_promise driver. I did discover that support for PATA appears to have been patched in very recently in this thread: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jan/1745.html So I suppose my options are, try to patch this driver somehow and load it into the installer using the expert mode, or wait and see if this patch makes it into the kernel in time for FC 4....