Re: HPT370 status [2.4/2.6]

From: Brian McGroarty
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 23:46:54 EST


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:10:56PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Brian McGroarty <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Wilfried Weissmann <Wilfried.Weissmann@xxxxxx> 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?

- What devices do you access the hpt374 through?

- Are you running a RAID, or individual drives?

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

Very much appreciated!

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