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Description of problem: The new kernel-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 doesn't recognize the PATA disk attached to my sata_promise SATA/PATA controller (in non-RAID PATA mode). This is a regression from kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6, where it is detected as /dev/sda. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find a motherboard with a dual-mode SATA/PATA Promise RAID controller. 2. Set the controller to normal IDE mode (no RAID) and attach a PATA drive. (In my case, this is out of necessity because I have 5 IDE/PATA devices: 3 HDDs, a DVD-ROM and a DVD writer, and the regular IDE controller can only handle 4 of them.) 3. Enter at least one of its partitions in /etc/fstab. 4. Try booting kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6, this works. 5. Try booting kernel-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6. Actual results: The boot stops with an error during the fsck phase because the disk is not found. Expected results: The kernel boots successfully like the previous version. Additional info: lspci entry for the Promise controller: 03:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02) Output of hdparm -I /dev/sda: /dev/sda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: ST3250823A Serial Number: 3ND12F54 Firmware Revision: 3.03 Standards: Supported: 7 6 5 4 Likely used: 7 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 488397168 device size with M = 1024*1024: 238475 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 250059 MBytes (250 GB) Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = ? Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 0 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=240ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * SMART feature set Security Mode feature set * Power Management feature set * Write cache * Look-ahead * Host Protected Area feature set * WRITE_BUFFER command * READ_BUFFER command * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE SET_MAX security extension * 48-bit Address feature set * Device Configuration Overlay feature set * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT * SMART error logging * SMART self-test * General Purpose Logging feature set Security: Master password revision code = 65534 supported not enabled not locked not frozen not expired: security count not supported: enhanced erase HW reset results: CBLID- above Vih Device num = 0 determined by CSEL Checksum: correct Is the sata_promise-pata patch still not upstream? If it's not, can it please be rebased? If it is, why doesn't it work?
Please post output of "lspci -vxn" for that controller.
Here it is: 03:04.0 0104: 105a:3373 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1043:80f5 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 21 I/O ports at df00 [size=64] I/O ports at dfa0 [size=16] I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] Memory at feafe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at feac0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 00: 5a 10 73 33 17 01 30 02 02 00 04 01 91 60 00 00 10: 01 df 00 00 a1 df 00 00 01 dc 00 00 00 e0 af fe 20: 00 00 ac fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 10 f5 80 30: 00 00 00 00 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 04 12 (Note that this output is from 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6.)
*** Bug 232656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Should be fixed in next release.
Just out of curiousity, what was the cause of the bug? (and also, when can we expect the next release...) Thanks
To satisfy this kind of curiosity is what the Fedora CVS is for. ;-) The problem was that support for PATA ports on Promise mixed SATA/PATA controllers has still not made it upstream for 2.6.20, and the patch which was in Fedora's 2.6.19 kernels was lost during the rebase, now this has been applied: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/kernel/FC-6/linux-2.6-sata-promise-pata-ports.patch?rev=1.7&view=markup (Thanks!)
Could this 'exceptional' treatment for the Promise mixed SATA/PATA controllers also explain the bug report I originally submitted back in November regarding the fact that the 'dmraid' section in the rc.sysinit script doesn't properly set up partitions of disks mounted on the PATA part of the controller (see bug # 216078 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216078)
Given that these Promise controllers are effectively already using libata even for PATA, any dmraid problems with them are likely to be closely related to problems with dmraid in F7 (which uses libata for _all_ PATA drives), so anything done there to fix this problem will probably also help with yours, if it's ever backported.
Any idea when the next fixed kernel version will be released into the 'updates' repo... I am eager to use some of the other fixes in the 2.4.20 kernel but can't until this Promise FastTrak issue is resolved. Thanks
Well, you can try 2932, which is up at: http://people.redhat.com/cebbert/kernels/ In fact, that's what I'm going to do right now. :-)
I can confirm that kernel-2.6.20-1.2932.fc6 works here.
When will the kernel be moved over to updates? (because I use several 3rd party kernel modules that won't be re-compiled until the kernel moves over to updates). Thanks!
*** Bug 232547 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***