Linux Compatibility: Promise Technology IDE ATA-133 PCI Card

[phoronix]

This is an entry for Phoronix LCH. Feel free to comment on the Linux compatibility for the Promise Technology IDE ATA-133 PCI Card in this thread.

Promise Technology IDE ATA-133 PCI Card



Description: Promise Technology ATA-133 IDE controller with dual IDE channels. PCI based.
Hardware Notes:

lspci -v
03:07.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02) (prog-if 85)
Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. Ultra133TX2
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 233
I/O ports at 9c00 [size=8]
I/O ports at 9800 [size=4]
I/O ports at 9400 [size=8]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8c00 [size=16]
Memory at fdff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Expansion ROM at 40000000 [size=16K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1

[Fragger00]

I am 98% sure this is the controller card got I bundled with my Maxtor ATA 133 80 GB hard drive back around 2002. Its not actually branded as Promise, but the hardware is the same. When I first moved to Linux in late 2003, I had to patch the kernel to get this controller card working. However, any recent 2.4 or 2.6 Kernel should have an option to compile with this card's drivers.