Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265719AbUADXSY (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:18:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265765AbUADXSY (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:18:24 -0500 Received: from 66.Red-80-38-104.pooles.rima-tde.net ([80.38.104.66]:19690 "HELO fulanito.nisupu.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265719AbUADXSV (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:18:21 -0500 Message-ID: <007501c3d319$2dc27e30$1530a8c0@HUSH> From: "Carlos Fernandez Sanz" To: References: Subject: Re: Any hope for HPT372/HPT374 IDE controller? Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:19:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1714 Lines: 42 I'm using a HPT 404 (374 chipset). I had all those problems and fixed them by doing hdparm -m0 /dev/hd? in every disk connected to the controller. Someone told me it isn't possible that helped one bit, but the fact is that it did. I'm no (kernel) developer, though, so other than reality I have no arguments. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 23:11 Subject: Any hope for HPT372/HPT374 IDE controller? > Many people seem to have problems with the Highpoint HPT372 and HPT374 IDE > controllers. Several months ago there was a thread in which many people > reported failure and not many people reported success. For example, "hdX: > lost interrupt" errors right before a crash are a common problem. This was > happening over a wide range of kernel versions. In my case it happens more > quickly if there is heavy network or video load at the same time as heavy > load on this controller. (This is a motherboard with a KT400 chipset). > > Have any recent improvements been made? Does anyone have one of these controllers actually working correctly? Does anyone have any idea where to > begin tracking this problem down? > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/