Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller
On Nov 24, 2005, at 6:42 am, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/23/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Is there any way to get the kernel to choose an IRQ for the HPT302? I thought this was what plug play operating systems were about. Can the kernel be invoked with an append which will assign it the IRQ11 recognised by the LiveCD? It should also be possible to write a boot sector to the IDE disk that will boot from the SCSI disk. If your /boot partition is /dev/sda1, something like this might work: #echo (hd0) /dev/hda /boot/grub/device.map.ide #echo (hd1) /dev/sda /boot/grub/device.map.ide # grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map.ide grub setup (hd0) (hd1,1) ... grub quit After numerous attempts I've had no joy installing GRUB on the EIDE drive getting the Highpoint to boot from it - this is surely a quirk of the server BIOS. If anyone has any other suggestions (please refer to my earlier posts) I would be EXTREMELY grateful. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller
On 24 Nov 2005, at 6:42, Richard Fish wrote: My guess is that mucking with interrupts is not going to help. To be honest, I thought that, too, but I thought it might be worth a go. There is usually an option to affect the boot order, typically named something like Boot Off-Board controllers first. I can't see an option like that. I reckon I'm usually pretty good at furtling around finding relevant options but I'd be delighted to be proved wrong. If you can give the model number of the server, we can probably lookup the BIOS manual online and maybe give better advice. It's a Compaq Proliant 6500. It should also be possible to write a boot sector to the IDE disk that will boot from the SCSI disk. If your /boot partition is /dev/sda1, something like this might work: #echo (hd0) /dev/hda /boot/grub/device.map.ide #echo (hd1) /dev/sda /boot/grub/device.map.ide # grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map.ide grub setup (hd0) (hd1,1) ... grub quit But, fair warning, I've never tried this, so I'm not sure how well it will work. I'll have a tinker with this next, probably over the weekend. Thanks for the pointer. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller
On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:31 am, Thomas Harold wrote: Key things to look for in menuconfig for Rocket133 might be: (D)evice drivers -- ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support -- -- SCSI emulation support -- -- generic/default IDE chipset support -- -- PCI IDE chipset support -- -- Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support Probably the only one that matters is (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y): -- -- HPT36X/37X chipset support (turn this ON as BUILT-IN) Yes, the Rocket 133SB (Rocket133SB) HPT302 chip is apparently supported by the HPT366.c file. Ah! My bad. It seems that all those options WERE configured in my kernel and the Highpoint IS being recognised. But there is a problem: HPT302: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:02.0 PCI: Enabling device :00:02.0 ( - 0003) PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device :00:02.0. Probably buggy MP table. HPT302: chipset revision 2 HPT302: bad irq (0): will probe later HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:02.0 to 64 ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio Probing IDE interface ide2... hde: WDC WD2500BB-22GUA0, ATA DISK drive hde: IRQ probe failed (0xf6f8) hdf: IRQ probe failed (0xf6f8) hdf: IRQ probe failed (0xf6f8) ide2: DISABLED, NO IRQ ide2: failed to initialize IDE interface I suspect this is because I've disabled the device in the machine's BIOS, in the belief that Linux would issue it an IRQ so on. When I re-enable the controller in BIOS boot from the LiveCD the drive attached to the controller shows up I am able to mount it: HPT302: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:02.0 HPT302: chipset revision 2 HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock HPT302: 100% native mode on irq 11 ide2: BM-DMA at 0x2400-0x2407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x2408-0x240f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio Probing IDE interface ide2... input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 hde: WDC WD2500BB-22GUA0, ATA DISK drive ide2 at 0x2000-0x2007,0x200a on irq 11 Unfortunately, if I leave the controller enabled in BIOS then the PC will attempt to boot from it, and not from the built-in RAID array on which the operating-system is installed... thus I get a non-sytem disk or disk error. The CD drive is on an internal EIDE controller which I can boot from whether the Highpoint is enabled or not. The system itself is a 5 year-old Compaq Proliant server which was never intended to have an EIDE hard-drives alongside its SCSI array, so I seem to be unable to tell it to boot from the array rather than the Highpoint. I believe I may be able to install GRUB on the boot sector of the EIDE drive point that at the /boot partition on the RAID array, but I thought I'd check in here first. Is there any way to get the kernel to choose an IRQ for the HPT302? I thought this was what plug play operating systems were about. Can the kernel be invoked with an append which will assign it the IRQ11 recognised by the LiveCD? I've tried furtling with the interrupts of the various controllers, but it's not a very intuitive interface on this machine - might I be able to change the boot order this way? Many thanks in advance for any advices, Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller
On 11/23/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, if I leave the controller enabled in BIOS then the PC will attempt to boot from it, and not from the built-in RAID array on which the operating-system is installed... thus I get a non-sytem disk or disk error. The CD drive is on an internal EIDE controller which I can boot from whether the Highpoint is enabled or not. The system itself is a 5 year-old Compaq Proliant server which was never intended to have an EIDE hard-drives alongside its SCSI array, so I seem to be unable to tell it to boot from the array rather than the Highpoint. I believe I may be able to install GRUB on the boot sector of the EIDE drive point that at the /boot partition on the RAID array, but I thought I'd check in here first. Is there any way to get the kernel to choose an IRQ for the HPT302? I thought this was what plug play operating systems were about. Can the kernel be invoked with an append which will assign it the IRQ11 recognised by the LiveCD? I've tried furtling with the interrupts of the various controllers, but it's not a very intuitive interface on this machine - might I be able to change the boot order this way? My guess is that mucking with interrupts is not going to help. There is usually an option to affect the boot order, typically named something like Boot Off-Board controllers first. If you can give the model number of the server, we can probably lookup the BIOS manual online and maybe give better advice. It should also be possible to write a boot sector to the IDE disk that will boot from the SCSI disk. If your /boot partition is /dev/sda1, something like this might work: #echo (hd0) /dev/hda /boot/grub/device.map.ide #echo (hd1) /dev/sda /boot/grub/device.map.ide # grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map.ide grub setup (hd0) (hd1,1) ... grub quit But, fair warning, I've never tried this, so I'm not sure how well it will work. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Has anyone had any joy getting one of these to work under Gentoo, please? I bought it on the recommendations of users on uk.comp.os.linux, as I was looking for a Linux-compatible card available in the UK, but apparently no-one on that group is using the card under Gentoo. Key things to look for in menuconfig for Rocket133 might be: (D)evice drivers -- ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support -- -- SCSI emulation support -- -- generic/default IDE chipset support -- -- PCI IDE chipset support -- -- Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support Probably the only one that matters is (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y): -- -- HPT36X/37X chipset support (turn this ON as BUILT-IN) Yes, the Rocket 133SB (Rocket133SB) HPT302 chip is apparently supported by the HPT366.c file. You can find this by grepping the kernel sources: # cd /usr/src/linux # find . -print | xargs grep -i 'hpt302' # grep -i 'hpt366' .config (snipped from my Nov2005 blog) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
