[PLUG] Board not recognized at boot

[Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com>]

I have a promise SATA add-on 4 port with two 250gb drives attached. Yes I
know promise is not a favorite but it does have a driver and does work.

At boot the board is not configured nor the drives recognized. lsmod shows
sata_promise was loaded and other dependencies for it.

If I  modprobe -r sata_promise  then immediately modprobe sata_promise the
board and the drives are registered and availalbe. dmesg shows this.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
libata version 1.12 loaded.
sata_promise: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
sata_promise version 1.02
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 9 (level, low)
-> IRQ 9
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8200 ctl 0xE12E8238 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8280 ctl 0xE12E82B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8300 ctl 0xE12E8338 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8380 ctl 0xE12E83B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi0 : sata_promise
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023
88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: lba48
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_promise
ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi2 : sata_promise
ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023
88:407f
ata4: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: lba48
ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi3 : sata_promise
  Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2500JS-00M  Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2500JS-00M  Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
 sdb: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0

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What would cayse the system to not recognize the drives when the module is
loaded at boot vs. my manually unloading and reloading?

I had rebuilt this module after making a minor mod. but the new code does
work, just not at boot.

The system is SUSE10 kernel 2.6

Doug

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