Subject: RE: SIIC PCI IDE Controller? Promise Ultra 33 Discontinued...
To: None <mark@causality.com>
From: Mark Randelhoff <markr@cat.co.za>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/17/2000 11:11:05
> > As the Promise Ultra 33 has been discontinued, we are looking for an
> > alternative 33MHz PCI IDE controller for our systems. Has
> anybody done any
> > work on getting other PCIIDE controllers to work under NetBSD?
> Promise Ultra 66.
Please can you let me know what work was required to get the 66 working and
whether this has been integrated into the source tree. I have tried the
board and it cam up with the following info on bootup:
>boot device: <unknown>
>root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
>wd0a: aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0
bn 79;
> cn 0 tn 1 sn 16), retrying
>wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4
>pdc202xx_setup_channel: pciide0:0:0 timings 0x4fe7f3
>wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4
>wd0a: aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd0
bn 79;
> cn 0 tn 1 sn 16), retrying
>wd0: soft error (corrected)
>swapctl: adding /dev/wd0b as swap device at priority 0
>Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
Carries on normally...................................
Thanks
Mark