Re: highpoint driver problem, 2.4.21-ac4

[Wil Reichert <wilreichert@yahoo.com>]

>  > The on-board Highpoint controller (HPT372A) on my DFI NF2 is having
>  > issue.  Loading the hptraid module results in a 'No such device'
>  > message while the hpt366 module segfaults and leaves an oops in my
>  > logs.  These errors occur regardless of the disk/raid configuration
>  > in the hpt BIOS.   Following are the oops trace, an lsmod, the
>  > .config and a lspci -vvv.
> 
> The crash occurs in the hpt366 module. Loading hptraid will not work 
> because it depends on the kernel to claim the disks of the raid volume 
> (that is what hpt366 would do). I will add autoloading of the 
> ide-controller module in the next raid-driver release. However, I do not 
> know why the kernel oopses. You might want to try to build the hpt366 
> code into the kernel instead of a module. If it works it would probably 
> mean that "ide_hwif_t *hwif" was not properly initalized.
I initially had all the hpt modules built into the kernel, but that would also produce an oops and die immediately after ID'ing the two drives I have on attached.  Would any more information be of use to you?

Wil