Andy Schmidt wrote: > >Hello, this is my firts message to cooker, i have the Highpoint hpt 372 >ata133/raid controller integrated into my Abit mobo. Currently i have >been running Mandrake 8.2, but it will kernel panic during initial >hardware detection if this controller >is enabled in BIOS.....so i have taken the hdd's off of it and shut it >off in BIOS and have been running off the regular IDE channels. > ...
>So, what is the status of hpt 372/374 support in 9.0, is it being >addressed?? > I while back I saw some messages on the maillist saying that it was now recognized, but not supported, see the kernel change log: * Sat Mar 16 2002 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1-1mdk - dmi update to fix apm in Dell Inspirons 2500. - smbfs fix for Ooops. - mini ide update (ultra safe mode): * Release recognition of promise ide raid. * fix jiffies workaround things (ide-tape). * hpt37[24], don't oops if we find them * put another WD disk in the ide-dma black list. * fix Oops with hpt37x & a lot of controllers. - 2.4.18-7mdk. Last week I had to open my machine and decided to take the opportunity to move my main drives from the ATA100 controller to the HPT controller. I knew it was not going to be pretty, since I use software raid1 for the root and lvm on top of a software raid0 for the other filesystems. I made all the necessary changes to the files involved, made the hw switch, and booted ... it was ugly! It booted, but when it tried to access the disks the thing started to give the kind of errors one get when a drive has bad sectors, etc. To make a long story short, I lost my raid structures, and was ready to recover from backup, but at the last minute I was able to repair it with mkraid. At first I thought the problem was related to hdparm optimizations, but I later check I had customized that so I should have worked fine. Now I think the problem was that the HPT37x driver is not yet ready for the 372 ... I think the only difference now is that it does not Oops at boot time, but is still not supported. -- Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
