Promise Ultra100 Tx2 + SuSE 8.1

[onlythetony]

I'm using a Promise Ultra 100 Tx2 ATA controller card to connect an Iomega 100 Zip drive to my system on SuSE 8.1.

They have both been detected but I cannot access the zip drive (there is also a Seagate TR4 tape drive on the card.. but I'll worry about that later). The drive is shown as /dev/hde, but I cannot mount the volume (when I connected a USB zip drive it worked perfectly).

Are there any modules I need to install or are there any drivers available for this card/drive?

Thanks,

Tee

[mdwatts]

I have the IDE Raid of the same model as you and use the pdcraid and ataraid modules.

Yours I believe uses the pdc202xx.

Have a look through these G4L search results for 'promise ultra100 tx2' (http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Promise+Ultra+100+Tx2&btnG=Google+Search) as you should be able to verify which modules it uses.

From the kernel .config

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y
CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST=y
# CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE is not set

[onlythetony]

Thanks for your reply.

As it turned out the card is working perfectly - I just hadn't mounted the IDE Zip drive correctly! :mad:

It was your pointer that helped me figure it out! Cheers!

Tee

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by mdwatts
I have the IDE Raid of the same model as you and use the pdcraid and ataraid modules.

Yours I believe uses the pdc202xx.

Actually, I've got the non-RAID version of the Ultra100 TX2. You don't need any special drivers compiled into the kernel-- if you have IDE drives installed in your system, then the kernel will support the TX2 out of the box.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
Actually, I've got the non-RAID version of the Ultra100 TX2. You don't need any special drivers compiled into the kernel-- if you have IDE drives installed in your system, then the kernel will support the TX2 out of the box.

A custom kernel and you didn't select anything Promise related either as a module or built into the kernel?

[DMR]

Nope, the (non-raid) Ultra100s don't seem to need anything special. I've used them with a few different distros without a hassle.

:)