Highpoint hpt370 raid and span disks

Highpoint hpt370 raid and span disks

[Ian Leonard]

Greetings,

I have tried to get the htpraid.o module working with spanned raid  
disks with a hpt370 chip (it is a slightly older version). I did this

1. Setup the raid in the hpt bios
2. loaded the hptraid.o module (kernel: 2.4.24)
3. fdisk /dev/ataraid/d0 and create /dev/ataraid/d0p1
I note that:
fdisk shows one partition of 80GB (which is correct because I 		 
have 2x40GB disks).
Also /proc/
4. mke2fs -j /dev/ataraid/d0p1
5. mount the partition and df shows 80GB.
6. run a test program that fills up the disk with many 1GB files. At  
about the 32nd file I see errors from ext3 and also i/0 errors ide  
controller. The error messages list the hdg device and indicate that  
they can't find sectors in the second disk.

After a reboot, the raid bios marks the 2nd disk with 'broken span'.

I see from a previous posting that spanning is supported, so I maybe  
missing something. Any help appreciated.
	
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Ian Leonard

Please ignore spelling and punctuation - I did.