> a quick glance at this driver, it does not seem to handle pci buss
> endianness.  afaik there is no automatic handling, so the register
> reads/writes are probably off.
> 
> Has anyone tried a Promise SATA card on a big-endian box?

I found this message from Manuel in the mail archive.  I'll write a pr via
send-pr asap. The handling of this models seems to be tricky :>

Best regards,
Lukas

The message:
> List: current-users
> Date: 11/24/2004 23:25:37
> 
> Hi,
> I commited pdcsata(4), a driver for the Promise SATA150 serial-ATA
> controllers. I developed in on sparc64, it should work on any system
> with a PCI bus.
> Attached is a version for 2.0.
> 
> Please report problems via send-pr, as usual.
> 
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>