Re: RocketRaid Serial ATA support (HPT374)

[mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)]

Sean Swallow <sean@swallow.org> writes:

> I recently bought a Highpoint RocketRaid 1540. I thoght that it should

So did I.

> work in Linux since it used the HPT374 chipset. I have been unable to get
> get it working with the driver in the kernel (kernel 2.4.20, 2.4.21-rc2,
> 2.4.21-rc6 and 2.5.70) or the driver from HighPoint's site.

It's working wonderfully for me with 2.4.21-pre5 on Alpha.

> I will be happy to provide any other information I can.
> 
> I have a RocketRaid 1540 connected to 4 60gb ata100 IBM drives 
> (Model=IC35L060AVVA07-0) on a Tyan 2466N.
> 
> Upon boot, the first thing I notice is that the first 2 channels are
> recognized as ata100 and the second 2 are only ata33.
> 
> HPT374: IDE controller at PCI slot 02:05.0
> HPT374: chipset revision 7
> HPT374: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
>     ide2: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
>     ide3: BM-DMA at 0x3008-0x300f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
>     ide4: BM-DMA at 0x3400-0x3407, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio
>     ide5: BM-DMA at 0x3408-0x340f, BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:pio
> hde: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
> ide2 at 0x3890-0x3897,0x3886 on irq 17
> hdg: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
> ide3 at 0x3888-0x388f,0x3882 on irq 17
> hdi: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
> ide4 at 0x38a8-0x38af,0x389e on irq 17
> hdk: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
> ide5 at 0x38a0-0x38a7,0x389a on irq 17
> hde: max request size: 128KiB
> hde: host protected area => 1
> hde: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, 
> UDMA(100)
>  hde: hde1 hde2 hde3
> hdg: max request size: 128KiB
> hdg: host protected area => 1
> hdg: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, 
> UDMA(100)
>  hdg: hdg1 hdg2

Looks good so far.

> hdi: max request size: 128KiB
> hdi: host protected area => 1
> hdi: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, 
> UDMA(33)
>  hdi: hdi1 hdi2
> hdk: max request size: 128KiB
> hdk: host protected area => 1
> hdk: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, 
> UDMA(33)
>  hdk: hdk1 hdk2
> 
> Then the second 2 start complaining...
> 
> hdi: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> hdi: drive not ready for command
> hdk: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> hdk: drive not ready for command
> 
> And, if I try to mount them, more fun ensues...

Make sure all the drives are configured as master.  Also, < ATA-100
drives will not work with the RocketHead adapters, but I gather this
is not your case.

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