HighPoint 374
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What's the current status of HPT 374 support? Is it working in any kernel
version?In 2.4.21 and 2.4.22 it's working great for me. I'm using the "experimental" IDE Raid with two disks on a HPT 374 controller with the drivers that come with the kernel.
I have tried these versions in the past as well without success. However, I don't use HPT-raid features at all ie. I'm using the disks as JBOD. What hardware do you have and have you enabled ACPI/local-apic/io-apic ? What brand & model of disk-drives you are using with HPT374 controller ? And finally what does the
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There really must be some explanation why some of us are having really huge problems with HPT374-contollers while for others it's working just fine. I haven't exactly heard anyone been too succesfull for example with Epox 8K9A3+ motherboard even on this mailing-list based on previous questions seen here.
well, it's not an Epox 8k9a3+ here, but an 8k5a3+ with two HPT374 onboard and it is working well with recent 2.6.0-test* kernels.
I also just use JBOD - only one disk connected as /dev/hde to the first HPT 374, an IBM-DTLA-305040, and I really don't see any probs here.
Christian
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There really must be some explanation why some of us are having really huge problems with HPT374-contollers while for others it's working just fine. I haven't exactly heard anyone been too succesfull for example with Epox 8K9A3+ motherboard even on this mailing-list based on previous questions seen here.
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well, it's not an Epox 8k9a3+ here, but an 8k5a3+ with two HPT374 onboard and it is working well with recent 2.6.0-test* kernels.
I also just use JBOD - only one disk connected as/dev/hdeto the first HPT 374,
an IBM-DTLA-305040, and I really don't see any probs here.
Ok, this is good to know. Have you ever tried 2.4 based kernels with that motherboard ? Also, have you ever tried running multiple drives with that controller ? Somehow I still have this feeling that with only one disk connected to a HPT374-controller it might work without problems, while with multiple disks it becomes unstable (this is the case with a a friends Epox 4PCA3+ based machine in addition to my two machines).
Can you perhaps send me off-the-list your .config and output of /proc/interrupts so that I could compare those to mine ?
Regards,
Tomi Orava