[ale] SATA RAID Card for 2.6

[Keith Hopkins]

G B wrote:
> I'd been monkeying with a "Promise SATA RAID" card all day trying to get 
> it to work with Suse Enterprise9 to no avail. The card is on its way 
> back to the dealer so I'm looking for another card. Anyway, can anyone 
> recommend a card that works with well with kernel 2.6 or specifically 
> Suse Ent. 9? The former card list Suse 9 in it's compatibility list but 
> I guess it's really for Suse 9 pro.
> 

I have a PromiseSATA300TX4 running under SuSE93 with a vanilla 2.6.13 kernel.

You need this little patch to make sata_promise recognize the card:

--- drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c-vanilla 2005-09-25 10:56:02.000000000 +1000
+++ drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c 2005-09-25 10:53:51.000000000 +1000
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@
           board_20319 },
         { PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE, 0x3319, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0,
           board_20319 },
+       { PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE, 0x3d17, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0,
+         board_20319 },
         { PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE, 0x3d18, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0,
           board_20319 },

http://wiki.hopnet.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PromiseSATA300TX4

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