Re: HTP372 on K7RA-RAID / kernel 2.4.19rc3

[Marshal Newrock]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Marshal Newrock wrote:
>
> > HPT372 IDE RAID chip on an Abit K7RA-RAID
> > running a freshly installed Gentoo (has gcc-2.95)
> > kernel 2.4.19rc3, using devfs.
> > Western Digital 40GB ATA100 drive on /dev/hde, one partition, ext2
> > filesystem.
> >
> > The system has no problem recognizing the HPT372, and can see the drive
> > and partitions.  I can generally mount it (mount /dev/hde1 /mnt), and 'ls
> > /mnt' lists the directories.  'ls -l /mnt' will give an 'input/output
> > error' for each directory.  Sometimes the ls or mount will hang, and I
> > have to kill the login from another shell.
> >
> > Right now, I have the drive connected as /dev/hdc (replacing the CD
> > drives), and working fine.
>
> The -ac kernels contain some IDE updates including updates to hpt366.c
> (AFAIR the HPT372 isn't really supported in 2.4.19-rc3). Could you try
> whether 2.4.19-rc3-ac3 (apply [1] on top of 2.4.19-rc3 and run
> "make clean oldconfig dep bzImage modules") fixes your problem?

The HPT372 seems to work fine with 2.4.19-rc3-ac3.

Thanks.

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