Re: HPT370 status [2.4/2.6]

Måns Rullgård
2004-01-20T21:11:04Z

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).

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