ata133 pci card by maxtor

[jdgill0]

Background info: I have a maxtor ata133 pci card (PDC 20269 controller). I have a master + slave combo on the first ide of the card and a single drive on the second ide of the card. In addition, I have a Sony cd-rw on ide1 of the motherboard.

I have compiled reverse mapping of the ide in the kernel so that ide1/2 of that ata card are hda & hdc respectively and the motherboards ide become hde/g respectively.

So, what I have is hda,hdb,hdc drive configuration with hde = cdrw.

THE PROBLEM: hdc is not working. I have tried two Western Digital 40 gig drives, an 8 gig Seagate, and a 40 gig Quantum Fireball. The two WD and the Seagate get recongized as hdc , however they are not accessible. I can not even cfdisk /dev/hdc without getting an error. The Quantum Fireball gets recognized as hdd (not hdc) , however it is accessible. The Promise controller recognizes the two WD drives and the Seagate drives as drives 2, whereas it recognizes the Quantum drive as 3 (note: the drive numbers are 0,1,2,3 for the ata promise controller).

Here is a partial listing of dmesg with the Seagate Drive:

PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:14.0
PDC20269: chipset revision 2
PDC20269: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20269: ROM enabled at 0xffaf8000
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xef90-0xef97, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xef98-0xef9f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: WDC WD600BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD400BB-00DEA0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c034e560, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c034e69c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: ST36531A, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c034e9b4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hde: SONY CD-RW CRX215E1, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0xefe0-0xefe7,0xefae on irq 10
ide1 at 0xefa0-0xefa7,0xefaa on irq 10
ide2 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=116301/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [7297/255/63] p1 p2 p3 p4
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: [PTBL] [4865/255/63] p1
hdc:end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 6
unable to read partition table

Anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong?

[jdgill0]

I found the problem. I failed to change hdc=ide-scsi in grub.conf