> Even with special fasttrack feature enabled, my disk devices on the
> PDC20276 is not found. There is code in pci-setup.c which blocks
> other PDC controllers, why not the 20276? Is that code for some other
> purpose, or orthagonal to the force option?
The comments would seem to indicate that this is only needed if you
have a second controller. Which leads me to wonder what if I have 3 or
4 pdc controllers.
for (port = 0; port <= 1; ++port) {
ide_pci_enablebit_t *e = &(d->enablebits[port]);
/*
* If this is a Promise FakeRaid controller,
* the 2nd controller will be marked as
* disabled while it is actually there and enabled
* by the bios for raid purposes.
* Skip the normal "is it enabled" test for those.
*/
if (((d->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE) &&
((d->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20262) ||
(d->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20265))) &&
(secondpdc++==1) && (port==1))
goto controller_ok;
-- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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