HPT372N Re: hpt366 driver oops or panic with HighPoint RocketRAID 1520SATA

HPT372N Re: hpt366 driver oops or panic with HighPoint RocketRAID 1520SATA

[Mitchell Laks]

Hello,
 
 I recently bought 
Highpoint RocketRaid 1520 pci - dual channel -  sata cards - chip is HPT372N -   
to use as simple block devices for linux software raid purposes.   I thought 
they were supported on Linux, because of highpoint web site and my previous 
experience with highpoint pata controllers was ok.
 
 However I get the same kernel OOPS reported by Johan Palmqvist on Mon Nov 07 
2005 with the latest stable kernel 2.6.14.4 .
 
 I also see a posting from Mar 17 2003 by Henning Schroeder reporting success 
with the highpoint driver hpt3xx-opensource-v131.tgz. 
 
 I tried to compile the hpt3xx-opensource-v2.0.tgz against latest stable 
kernel 2.6.14.4. After minor corrections   I have failure to compile their 
driver due to  scsi_cmnd structure "has no member abort_reason".  Has their 
been a change in scsi subsystem? 
 
 Which kernel can I use? Any advice? Sorry to interrupt your amazing work with 
my question. I am off list. I will read list but cc is appreciated. 
 
 Thanks Gurus!
 
 Mitchell Laks
  
 

Re: HPT372N Re: hpt366 driver oops or panic with HighPoint RocketRAID 1520SATA

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2005-12-27 at 02:19 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> to use as simple block devices for linux software raid purposes.   I thought 
> they were supported on Linux, because of highpoint web site and my previous 
> experience with highpoint pata controllers was ok.

Some are, although there are problems remaining in things like clock
timing and PLL stabilization. In addition the ide/pci/hpt366.c driver
never supported the SATA bridge variants of the chipsets at all. These
require certain modes are used.

What may work if the HPT card has the onboard BIOS enabled and fitted is
to compile in the generic IDE PCI driver, say N to the HPT driver and
boot with the option "all-generic-ide".

I've been working on a new HPT372N/302N driver for libata/SATA but it
isn't yet production ready and it also does not know about the SATA
bridge rules for that chip.

>  I tried to compile the hpt3xx-opensource-v2.0.tgz against latest stable 
> kernel 2.6.14.4. After minor corrections   I have failure to compile their 
> driver due to  scsi_cmnd structure "has no member abort_reason".  Has their 
> been a change in scsi subsystem? 

Several
 
Alan