Re: HighPoint 374

["Tomi Orava" <Tomi.Orava@ncircle.nullnet.fi>]

> "Tomi Orava" <Tomi.Orava@ncircle.nullnet.fi> writes:
>
>>> In 2.4.21 and 2.4.22 it's working great for me.  I'm using the
>>> "experimental" IDE Raid with two disks on a HPT 374 controller with the
>>> drivers that come with the kernel.
>>
>> I have tried these versions in the past as well without success.
>> However, I don't use HPT-raid features at all ie. I'm using the
>> disks as JBOD. What hardware do you have and have you enabled
>> ACPI/local-apic/io-apic ? What brand & model of disk-drives you
>> are using with HPT374 controller ? And finally what does
>> the /proc/interrupts show for you ?
>
> I'm using a RocketRAID 1540 SATA card (hpt374 based) in an Alpha
> system.  It has no such thing as ACPI.  The disks are four Seagate
> Barracuda 7200.7 running software raid5.  My /proc/interrupts:

Ok, that might be one reason why it's working for you but not for me.
If I've understood correctly, people who have problems with HPT374
are using the integrated Parallel-ATA interface instead of SATA.

I'd be really interested to hear if anyone has a working system
with kernel included drivers & HPT374-controller integrated in
motherboard and using PATA-drives ?

Regards,
Tomi Orava