Re: HPT370 status [2.4/2.6]

Måns Rullgård
2004-01-21T08:02:18Z

Brian McGroarty <brian@mcgroarty.net> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:10:56PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Brian McGroarty <brian@mcgroarty.net> writes:
>>
>> > Wilfried Weissmann <Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at> writes:
>> >> Jan De Luyck wrote:
>> >>> Hello List,
>> >>> Before I start frying my disks and all, what's the usability status
>> >>> of the Hightpoint HPT370 ide "raid" controller on linux 2.4 and 2.6?
>> >>
>> >> 2.4 is fine if you use the ataraid code. mirroring is not fault
>> >> tolerant so you would not want to use that.
>> >
>> > No problems with 2.4 here.
>> >
>> > 2.6 recognizes my 374, which uses the hpt366 driver like the
>> > 370. However, no devices are being made available from it [1].
>> >
>> > If others' experiences are any different, I'd love to hear.
>>
>> I've been successfully using an hpt374 based board for a year or so.
>> Right now I'm running Linux 2.6.0 (no reboot after 2.6.1 release).
>
> Can you say a bit about your configuration?
>
> - What module(s) do you load? Any parameters?

The usual bunch, i.e. USB, sound, ethernet, nfs. Nothing specific to
the hpt374.

> - What devices do you access the hpt374 through?

Four Seagate Barracuda disks.

> - Are you running a RAID, or individual drives?

Software RAID.

> Any other info (dmesg, contents of ide procdir, etc) would be great
> for us to compare.

The evil thing just dumped a bunch of error. I'll have to check it
out.

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