serious bug in IDE-Controller Code: Highpoint 370/2 after kernal 3.6.1

serious bug in IDE-Controller Code: Highpoint 370/2 after kernal 3.6.1

[Alexander Oberhuber]

Hi there,

I discovered a bug that prevents Linux from booting if the Highpoint 370/2 
IDE controller is being used.

Machine: AMD 1200 Athlon  / Motherboard: Gigabyte 7IXe4 / 660 MB Ram 
/  (yes, old, I know)
Video: Radeon 9200 SE , AGP
Eth:   3com 3c900 combo, PCI
USB: Onboard, plus one extra NEC USB 2.0 controller on PCI.
Sound: SB 16 ISA PNP
Lots of IDE harddisks and devices.
No USB devices connected yet.
Highpoint 370/2 IDE controller (naturally)., Bios Version 2.34


Problem: When detecting the Highpoint 370/2, the kernal 2.6.10.1 , used by 
Knoppix 3.9 (27-5-05) oopses. Also the kernal module loading from UBUNTU 
5.04 fails :

(snip from var/log/messages of Ubuntu) :

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Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: AMD7409: 0000:00:07.1 (rev 07) UDMA66 
controller
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS 
settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS 
settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hda: IBM-DHEA-38451, ATA DISK drive
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hdb: ST320423A, ATA DISK drive
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/472KiB 
Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA(33)
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 
< p5 >
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hdb: max request size: 128KiB
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hdb: 40011300 sectors (20485 MB) w/512KiB 
Cache, CHS=39693/16/63, UDMA(66)
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hdc: JLMS XJ-HD166S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hdd: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-811S, ATAPI 
CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: HPT372A: IDE controller at PCI slot 
0000:00:0a.0
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0a.0 (0105 
-> 0107)
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> 
GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: HPT372A: chipset revision 2
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hpt: HPT372N detected, using 372N timing.
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: FREQ: 157 PLL: 66
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: HPT372A: 100%% native mode on irq 9
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hpt: no known IDE timings, disabling DMA.
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hpt: no known IDE timings, disabling DMA.
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hde: MAXTOR 4K060H3, ATA DISK drive
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: e886a2fa
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: PREEMPT
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: ide_generic 
pdc202xx_new aec62xx alim15x3 atiixp cmd64x cs5520 cs5530 cy82c693 generic 
hpt34x ns87415 opti621 pdc202xx_old piix rz1000 sc1200 serverworks siimage 
sis5513 slc90e66 triflex trm290 via82cxxx floppy usb_storage scsi_mod 
parport_pc parport fbcon font bitblit vga16fb vgastate vesafb cfbcopyarea 
cfbimgblt cfbfillrect usbserial usbhid usbkbd thermal processor fan hpt366 
ide_disk ehci_hcd ohci_hcd usbcore amd74xx ide_core evdev unix
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: CPU:    0
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: 
EIP:    0060:[pg0+676193018/1070015488]    Not tainted VLI
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282   (2.6.10-5-386)
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: EIP is at pci_bus_clock_list+0x9/0x22 
[hpt366]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: 30070000   ecx: 
80005050   edx: 0000000c
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: esi: 00000040   edi: 00000051   ebp: 
e7c35800   esp: e6c11ef8
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: Process modprobe (pid: 9983, 
threadinfo=e6c10000 task=e78730c0)
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: Stack: e886a611 0000000c 00000000 
0000000c 0cc35800 00000000 00c35800 e885ebf8
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:        e885edac 000000a1 e885eb68 
e884b6ea e885ebf8 0000000c 00000009 00000282
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:        00000000 01871b60 e885eb68 
00000000 00000010 e6c10000 e884b745 e885eb68
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [pg0+676193809/1070015488] 
hpt372_tune_chipset+0xc5/0x11a [hpt366]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [pg0+676067050/1070015488] 
probe_hwif+0x327/0x372 [ide_core]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [pg0+676067141/1070015488] 
probe_hwif_init_with_fixup+0x10/0x53 [ide_core]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [pg0+676079089/1070015488] 
ide_setup_pci_device+0x43/0x76 [ide_core]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [pg0+676199220/1070015488] 
hpt366_init_one+0x62/0x69 [hpt366]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [pg0+676079488/1070015488] 
ide_scan_pcidev+0x34/0x59 [ide_core]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [pg0+676079568/1070015488] 
ide_scan_pcibus+0x2b/0x97 [ide_core]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [pg0+677412869/1070015488] 
ide_generic_init+0x5/0x12 [ide_generic]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [sys_init_module+212/451] 
sys_init_module+0xd4/0x1c3
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: Code: c0 75 f8 31 c0 eb 04 19 c0 0c 01 85 
c0 ba 01 00 00 00 74 07 83 3b 00 75 da 31 d2 5b 89 d0 5e 5f 5d c3 8b 44 24 
08 0f b6 54 24 04 <80> 38 00 74 10 38 10 75 04 8b 40 04 c3 83 c0 08 80 38 
00 75 f0
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel:  hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 
2048kB Cache
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled 
at IRQ 10
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> 
GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.  [snip]
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: 0000:00:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 
10Mbps Combo at 0xdc00. Vers LK1.1.19
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no 
checksum feature.
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> 
GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jun  5 14:24:05 localhost kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)

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The only _working_ kernal version is 2.6.1 #1 SMP (Jan 15 2004) , which is 
being used in Knoppix 3.4, Special C'T edition 4/2004. On the same CD, 
there is a 2.4 Kernal, which does _NOT_ work, and displays an OOPS msg 
immidately after booting.

Thus, it is my wild guess that some bug was introduced between 2.6.1 and 
2.6.10.y and later versions.

Yes, I know my hardware is weird. Any help, is appreciated, anyway. :-)

Yours
Alex

Re: serious bug in IDE-Controller Code: Highpoint 370/2 after kernal 3.6.1

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2005-06-05 at 16:32, Alexander Oberhuber wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I discovered a bug that prevents Linux from booting if the Highpoint 370/2 
> IDE controller is being used.

Linux doesn't support HPT372N style controllers. Someone needs to
rewrite the PLL programming code in the driver to actually work but so
far nobody has volunteere.