Wanted: small number of crazy highpoint IDE (HPT366-372N/374) controller owners

Wanted: small number of crazy highpoint IDE (HPT366-372N/374) controller owners

[Alan Cox]

I've been debugging and chasing down various HPT IDE problems. I've done
some cleanups, fixed the PLL tune and little bits like that. These are
the kind of changes that turn your disk into a random number generator
if they go wrong but OTOH the HPT372N crashes should be fixed.

Now it needs some testers...

Alan

Re: Wanted: small number of crazy highpoint IDE (HPT366-372N/374) controller owners

[Norbert van Nobelen]

I can see volunteers line up already with this kind of incentive (-:

Sorry, already have a not so trustable SATA controller, a possibly broken IDE  
disk in a software raid5 array, and just survived another SCSI disk crash. 
This one will pass me by by lack of the mentioned controller. If someone 
sends me one, I don't have problem with testing it, machines and disks 
enough.

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 19:30, you wrote:
> I've been debugging and chasing down various HPT IDE problems. I've done
> some cleanups, fixed the PLL tune and little bits like that. These are
> the kind of changes that turn your disk into a random number generator
> if they go wrong but OTOH the HPT372N crashes should be fixed.
>
> Now it needs some testers...
>
> Alan
>
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Re: Wanted: small number of crazy highpoint IDE (HPT366-372N/374) controller owners

[Cal Peake]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> I've been debugging and chasing down various HPT IDE problems. I've done
> some cleanups, fixed the PLL tune and little bits like that. These are
> the kind of changes that turn your disk into a random number generator
> if they go wrong but OTOH the HPT372N crashes should be fixed.
> 
> Now it needs some testers...

Hi Alan,

I've got a HPT371 somewhere (have to dig it out). If that fits the bill 
lemme know and I'll hook up some extra drives to it and go to town with 
your changes.

-- Cal

Re: Wanted: small number of crazy highpoint IDE (HPT366-372N/374) controller owners

[Mark Gross]

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:30, Alan Cox wrote:
> I've been debugging and chasing down various HPT IDE problems. I've done
> some cleanups, fixed the PLL tune and little bits like that. These are
> the kind of changes that turn your disk into a random number generator
> if they go wrong but OTOH the HPT372N crashes should be fixed.
>
> Now it needs some testers...
>
> Alan
>

I have a retiered BP6 at home I could try to bring up this weekend.  The only 
problem is that I haven't been able to boot a 2.6 kernel from the HPT 366 
attached drive it as the device id's seem to have been shuffeled about on me.  
hdd goes to something else or so i thought before I gave up on the thing.

I could put 2 IDE's in it one on the 366 and one on the chipset IDE 
controllers to get the thing to boot up.

just let me know.

--mgross