Re: HPT372 RAID controller

[Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>]

Spacecake wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've been putting off posting to this mailing list, because i really
>didn't want to bother all you busy kernel development type peoples :),
>but after searching for about a week, i am no closer to the answer -
>maybe the author of the driver can help me, or something.
>
>Using the above raid controller, which is onboard the Abit KX7-333R
>motherboard.
>Using a single HDD to test it with, the HDD in question works fine using
>the VIA IDE controller on the same board.
>If this matters, i don't actually want RAID, i am just using it as
>another IDE controller.
>
>I'm using the 2.4.20 kernel, and i thought this controller had been
>supported since 2.4.18. I'll include the relevant part of my current
>.config below.
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   Things have been changing a lot in the 2.4 ide driver.  Try Alan's ac 
kernel.  That's where all of the ide bug fixing is being done.

1)Apply ac patch
- cd ~
- wget 
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.20/patch-2.4.20-ac1.bz2
- cd /usr/src/
- cp -a linux-2.4.20 linux-2.4.20-ac1
- cd linux-2.4.20-ac1
- bzcat ~/patch-2.4.20-ac1.bz2|   patch -p1
2)Compile and install kernel
- cp .config 1
- make mrproper
- cp 1 .config
- make oldconfig
- make dep bzImage modules modules_install install
3)If you still have issues send an email to the list with 2.4.20-ac1 in 
the subject.  Include:
- ide section of dmesg
- output of "hdparm -vi <drive>"
- results of "hdparm -d 1 <drive>"  including any thing that shows up in 
dmesg afterwards.

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