Promise SATA chips

Promise SATA chips

[Måns Rullgård]

Are there any drivers being developed for Promise's SATA chips
(e.g. the pdc20275 with PCI id 0x3375)?  Or do I have to disassemble
their driver to use it on non-intel machines?

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Re: Promise SATA chips

[Samuel Flory]

Måns Rullgård wrote:

>Are there any drivers being developed for Promise's SATA chips
>(e.g. the pdc20275 with PCI id 0x3375)?  Or do I have to disassemble
>their driver to use it on non-intel machines?
>
>  
>
  Last I checked there was no open driver and no prospect of one.  Do 
yourself a favor and use the silicon image chipset.

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Re: Promise SATA chips

[Måns Rullgård]

Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com> writes:

> >Are there any drivers being developed for Promise's SATA chips
> >(e.g. the pdc20275 with PCI id 0x3375)?  Or do I have to disassemble
> >their driver to use it on non-intel machines?
> 
>   Last I checked there was no open driver and no prospect of one.  Do
>   yourself a favor and use the silicon image chipset.

The problem is that no local dealers have it for sale.  Neither do
they sell Hightpoint gear.

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Re: Promise SATA chips

[Måns Rullgård]

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > Are there any drivers being developed for Promise's SATA chips
> > (e.g. the pdc20275 with PCI id 0x3375)?  Or do I have to disassemble
> > their driver to use it on non-intel machines?
> 
> As far as I am aware there is no documentation available on this
> chipset. 

Shouldn't someone try to get some from them?  Or has it already been
tried?  I tried sending email to an address I found in the existing
pdc* driver, but it bounces.

If they refuse to cooperate like this I can Promise I will never buy
any of their cards.

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Re: Promise SATA chips

[Andre Hedrick]

NOPE !!

Neither Promise or I can agree to a contract to develop them.
Use Silicon Image products.

On 12 Feb 2003, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> 
> Are there any drivers being developed for Promise's SATA chips
> (e.g. the pdc20275 with PCI id 0x3375)?  Or do I have to disassemble
> their driver to use it on non-intel machines?
> 
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Re: Promise SATA chips

[Måns Rullgård]

Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> writes:

> NOPE !!
> 
> Neither Promise or I can agree to a contract to develop them.

What's the problem?  Can't they be made to release the source code to
the driver they provide for intel machines?

> Use Silicon Image products.

I can't get them.

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Re: Promise SATA chips

[Andre Hedrick]

On 13 Feb 2003, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> writes:
> 
> > NOPE !!
> > 
> > Neither Promise or I can agree to a contract to develop them.
> 
> What's the problem?  Can't they be made to release the source code to

The problem is they want an entire list of every piece of intellectual
property I have or own.  This is a means to claim anything else I do is
derived off their IP and they own it.  This will not happen.

Some other poor bastard can sign their NDA's to write their drivers.

> the driver they provide for intel machines?

Right, I count the number of fingers I have before and after I shake hands
with the folks in their camp.  If I get an extra, I feel sorry for the
poor bastard who was there before me.

I still have 4 fingers and 1 thumb on each hand, and I plan to keep it
that way.

> > Use Silicon Image products.
> 
> I can't get them.

Hogwash, they dominate the market space and are on all the Intel
Mainboards that are 845e and above.

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

Re: Promise SATA chips

[Matthias Schniedermeyer]

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:04:50AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On 13 Feb 2003, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> 
> > > Use Silicon Image products.
> > 
> > I can't get them.
> 
> Hogwash, they dominate the market space and are on all the Intel
> Mainboards that are 845e and above.

Btw. I've looked and the "HighPoint RocketRAID 1540" (4 Channel
Serial-ATA) looks "nice".

Is/Should this controller be supported by the "siimage"-driver?




Bis denn

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Re: Promise SATA chips

[Andre Hedrick]

This one is the HPT374 with Marvell bridge chips slapped on it.
It is natively supported with the PATA driver.

Cheers,

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:04:50AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > On 13 Feb 2003, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > 
> > > > Use Silicon Image products.
> > > 
> > > I can't get them.
> > 
> > Hogwash, they dominate the market space and are on all the Intel
> > Mainboards that are 845e and above.
> 
> Btw. I've looked and the "HighPoint RocketRAID 1540" (4 Channel
> Serial-ATA) looks "nice".
> 
> Is/Should this controller be supported by the "siimage"-driver?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bis denn
> 
> -- 
> Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as 
> bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer
> wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, 
> cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
> 

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

Re: Promise SATA chips

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:03:42AM +0100, Mĺns Rullgĺrd wrote:
> Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com> writes:
> > >Are there any drivers being developed for Promise's SATA chips
> > >(e.g. the pdc20275 with PCI id 0x3375)?  Or do I have to
> > >disassemble their driver to use it on non-intel machines?
> > Last I checked there was no open driver and no prospect of one.  Do
> > yourself a favor and use the silicon image chipset.
> The problem is that no local dealers have it for sale.  Neither do
> they sell Hightpoint gear.

Mine do... but, I cannot find, which driver to use?

cmd64x.c?  I am referring to older, non-SATA boards...

I am using 2.4 kernel (currently 2.4.20).

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