Bug 14799

It seems jay.krell@cornell.edu wrote:
> Promise Ultra33 IDE cards do not work. The source appears to have support for them, the PCI probe finds them, but they do not end up working. I fiddled considerable with the configuration and building the kernel. I've looked at the source, but it is unintelligable. Carl Mascott, cmascott@world.std.com, had a similar experience as me; he ended up returning the card. We both sent email to freebsd-questions
> and got no response except for each other.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Get a machine with onboard IDE + a Promise Ultra33 PCI IDE card. Attempt to use any hard drives on the Promise card.
> >Fix:
> No known fix.

Use the ata driver instead, that works with both the Ultra and Fasttrak in
both the 33 and the 66 versions.

Thank Soren.

I just looked at the head sys/i386/config/LINT
vs. the 3.3 LINT. Is the ata controller an option for hard
drives in 3.3? It doesn't look like it. The "hack" code is
even #if 0'ed in head. (The head LINT still has comments
about what I tried being about right. I do I believe have
what it describes as well, an Intel PIIX? IDE on the
motherboard, though the comment isn't clear if that's the
"first" PCI IDE and the Promise is the "second" or
otherwise since the Intel is on the motherboard (yeah,
I can imagine "motherboard" still can imply "PCI" but
I'm pretty clueless at this level.))

 - Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To: jay.krell@cornell.edu <jay.krell@cornell.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: i386/14799: Promise Ultra33 doesn't work


>It seems jay.krell@cornell.edu wrote:
>> Promise Ultra33 IDE cards do not work. The source appears to have support
for them, the PCI probe finds them, but they do not end up working. I
fiddled considerable with the configuration and building the kernel. I've
looked at the source, but it is unintelligable. Carl Mascott,
cmascott@world.std.com, had a similar experience as me; he ended up
returning the card. We both sent email to freebsd-questions
>> and got no response except for each other.
>> >How-To-Repeat:
>> Get a machine with onboard IDE + a Promise Ultra33 PCI IDE card. Attempt
to use any hard drives on the Promise card.
>> >Fix:
>> No known fix.
>
>Use the ata driver instead, that works with both the Ultra and Fasttrak in
>both the 33 and the 66 versions.
>

Comment 3 nbm 2000-08-06 00:14:00 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

These cards work in 4.0 and above.