From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750791AbWGQO1I (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:27:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750796AbWGQO1I (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:27:08 -0400 Received: from the.earth.li ([193.201.200.66]:16865 "EHLO the.earth.li") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750791AbWGQO1H (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:27:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:27:05 +0100 From: Jonathan McDowell To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Status of HPT372A driver? Message-ID: <20060717142705.GS1485@earth.li> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. I recently acquired a HighPoint RocketRaid 1520 SATA controller (I know, I know, bad choice but I just need something to tide me over until I can upgrade to a motherboard with AHCI love). This presents as a HPT372A: 00:09.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT372A/372N (rev 01) 00:09.0 0104: 1103:0005 (rev 01) The 2.6.17 hpt366.c driver is at version 0.36. I also found your patches to l-k earlier this year, but I'm not sure whether I got them all as I had some rejects; I ended up with a version 1.00 driver as at: http://the.earth.li/~noodles/hpt366.c Is there somewhere I can get your latest work without having to try to pick the right patches from the l-k archives? Also I'm getting fairly appalling speeds; I don't know if this is thie card or not, but I have a SATA II capable drive (I know the controller is only SATA I) attached that's getting detected as: hde: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(33) I'd expect UDMA(133) or similar instead? hdparm -Tt gives: /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 984 MB in 2.00 seconds = 491.58 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 90 MB in 3.00 seconds = 30.00 MB/sec /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 940 MB in 2.00 seconds = 469.89 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 172 MB in 3.04 seconds = 56.66 MB/sec /dev/hde: Timing cached reads: 1012 MB in 2.01 seconds = 504.48 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 44 MB in 3.05 seconds = 14.43 MB/sec (sda is an old 36GB SCSI disk on an Adaptec 2940, hda is a Maxtor on the internal VIA PATA controller. I'd expected hde to at least outperform sda.) Relevent dmesg output is: HPT372A: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] - > GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 HPT372A: chipset revision 1 HPT372A: DPLL base: 66 MHz, f_CNT: 99, assuming 33 MHz PCI HPT372A: using 66 MHz DPLL clock HPT372A: 100%% native mode on irq 11 ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio Probing IDE interface ide2... hde: WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0, ATA DISK drive ide2 at 0xa000-0xa007,0xa402 on irq 11 J. -- /-\ | noodles is really a meal in itself |@/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | \- |