On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 12:18:49AM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> Anybody know anything about it/them? 
> 
> I get the following message during startup:
> 
>   Promise Technology Ultra DMA/ATA Bus Master IDE Accelerator (RAID 
>   mass storage, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 18 function 0 not configured 
> 
> I thought it was a popular card so I'm a bit suprised it isn't supported.  

The problem is that Promise Technology isn't very cooperative with free
OSes. I've asked them for documentation about their products so that I could
add support for them, but they never gave them to me.
Someone else has the docs, but under NDA so they can't be used to write a
driver distributed in sources.

> 
> I poked around in the 1.4 sources.  I found an entry in the list 
> of known PCI devices but nothing to hook it up to a driver.  Not 
> too surprising since I didn't see it mentioned in the supported hardware 
> list. 
>    
> Did I miss something?  Anybody working on it?
> 
> [I think the "Raid" part is bogus.  It's just an IDE controller.  
> It may use the Raid device type code for some PC related reason.]

However, as they use a Raid identifiant instead of the PCI IDE one, I suspect
this board is not conformant to the PCI IDE specs for other parts. Getting it
working certainly requires a new driver.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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