Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262055AbUAUICS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:02:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263561AbUAUICS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:02:18 -0500 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:20717 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262055AbUAUICQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:02:16 -0500 To: Brian McGroarty Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: HPT370 status [2.4/2.6] References: <1g0ZG-2q6-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <400D72B5.40705@gmx.at> <20040120204537.GA6820@mcgroarty.net> <20040121043536.GA14390@mcgroarty.net> From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:02:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20040121043536.GA14390@mcgroarty.net> (Brian McGroarty's message: 35:36 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1710 Lines: 53 Brian McGroarty writes: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:10:56PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: >> Brian McGroarty writes: >> >> > Wilfried Weissmann 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? The usual bunch, i.e. USB, sound, ethernet, nfs. Nothing specific to the hpt374. > - What devices do you access the hpt374 through? Four Seagate Barracuda disks. > - Are you running a RAID, or individual drives? Software RAID. > Any other info (dmesg, contents of ide procdir, etc) would be great > for us to compare. The evil thing just dumped a bunch of error. I'll have to check it out. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@kth.se - 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/