Re: PROBLEM: Promise Fast Track SX6000 i2o driver.

[Piotr Goczal]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for quick answer!

> > With new version of firmware (Bios version 1.20.0.27) driver doesn't 
> > recognise hardware at all. The problem is: Promise's changed PCI_CLASS 
> > identifier from 0x0e00 (I2O controler) to 0x0104 (RAID bus controller). 
> > I've tried simply change PCI_CLASS number in source and recompile it but 
> > it doesn't work good (driver recognised hardware but hung whole machine!).
> The new firmware isn't I2O any more. I've not found any public docs on
> the newer firmware interface and since it was way slower than the 3ware
> card I never looked.

The Promise driver (distributed via src) is common and is working for both 
version of firmware.

So, as I've understood: there will be no working i2o drivers for SX6000 at 
least to time when Promise publicize documentation to their hardware. 
:-( Am I right? 

Best regards

Piotr Goczal
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