CentOS - Sep 2005 - Promise SATA support

Hi List



I have a Promise SATA 300  TX ( NOT raid ) that do have RHEL4 driver, but
this driver doesn?t work with CentOS4



Why?



 What can I do to get a driver that works?





SATAII150/SATA300 TX series RHEL4 32-bit Driver





http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productID=139&cate
gory=all&os=100#



 This one should be for the correct 2.6 kernel, but it's no go



I get this error:



#sh install

Promise SATA II 150/300 Driver Installation...failed No suitable driver
found make sure driver disk or kernel version is right







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MVH / Regards



Jan Erik



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Admin wrote:
>Hi List
>
>
>
>I have a Promise SATA 300  TX ( NOT raid ) that do have RHEL4 driver, but
>this driver doesn?t work with CentOS4
>
>
>
>Why?
>
>  
>
The driver was likely built for a different kernel rev that you're 
running.  Search the list.  A few people have recently posted procedures 
for overcoming this problem.

Regards,

Hello,

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:28:18 +0200, Admin/Jan Erik
wrote:
> I have a Promise SATA 300  TX ( NOT raid ) that do have RHEL4 driver, but
> this driver doesn't work with CentOS4
I have a Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller which I belive is somewhat
similar to your controller. And judging from
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productID=129&category=all&os=100
the two controllers use the same driver.

My controller wasn't supported by the first CentOS 4 (4.0) release, but
with CentOS 4.1, things work fine out of the box, with no need to try to
install special vendor drivers.

By the way: The driver (kernel module) is called "sata_promise" on my
system.

Have you tried simply forgetting about the vendor's driver files, and just
install CentOS 4.1, perhaps telling it to use the "sata_promise"
driver,
if manual intervention is needed?

-- 
Greetings from Troels Arvin

Hello,

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:28:18 +0200, Admin/Jan Erik
wrote:
> I have a Promise SATA 300  TX ( NOT raid ) that do have RHEL4 driver, but
> this driver doesn't work with CentOS4
I have a Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller which I belive is somewhat
similar to your controller. And judging from
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productID=129&cate
gory=all&os=100
the two controllers use the same driver.

My controller wasn't supported by the first CentOS 4 (4.0) release, but
with CentOS 4.1, things work fine out of the box, with no need to try to
install special vendor drivers.

By the way: The driver (kernel module) is called "sata_promise" on my
system.

Have you tried simply forgetting about the vendor's driver files, and just
install CentOS 4.1, perhaps telling it to use the "sata_promise"
driver,
if manual intervention is needed?

--
Greetings from Troels Arvin




Hello Troels Arvin

Maybe the promise SATA driver that is in CentOS is obsolete?
Because it dosen't recognise my SATA card at all


Here is theoutput from lspci:



# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333
AGP]
00:07.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown
device 3d17 (rev 02)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
(rev 05)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
00:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 1b)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 1b)
00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 1b)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio 64 3D (rev 01)



As you can see on line 3 there is Unknown mass storage controller. It's
recognised as Promise, but that's all

Any clues?


B.T.W I have emailed support at promise and here is their reply:

Hi



The SATA300 TX card dose not support Kernel 2.6 only Kernel 2.4.




Regards
Jan Erik