I have a couple of systems with Promise ide adapters -- one works, one does not. The one that works has the following into from /proc/pci: Bus 0, device 8, function 0: RAID storage controller: Promise Technology IDE UltraDMA/33 (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xa400 [0xa401]. I/O at 0xa804 [0xa805]. I/O at 0xac00 [0xac01]. I/O at 0xb004 [0xb005]. I/O at 0xb400 [0xb401]. The one that does NOT work has the following /proc/pci info: Bus 1, device 9, function 0: Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d38 Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xecf8 [0xecf9]. I/O at 0xecf0 [0xecf1]. I/O at 0xece0 [0xece1]. I/O at 0xecd8 [0xecd9]. I/O at 0xec80 [0xec81]. Both work on other opterating systems (e.g., Win/nt). These are on different systems.
Unfortunately, this late in the cycle, there is very little hope of getting this fixed for the Winston release... perhaps the next release. As such, I'm marking this defect as DEFERRED.