From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262127AbTJSMOL (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:14:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262118AbTJSMOL (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:14:11 -0400 Received: from ncircle.nullnet.fi ([62.236.96.207]:32956 "EHLO ncircle.nullnet.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262128AbTJSMN6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:13:58 -0400 Message-ID: <48236.192.168.9.10.1066565636.squirrel@ncircle.nullnet.fi> In-Reply-To: <00b801c3955c$7e623100$0514a8c0@HUSH> References: <00b801c3955c$7e623100$0514a8c0@HUSH> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:13:56 +0300 (EEST) Subject: Re: HighPoint 374 From: "Tomi Orava" To: "Carlos Fernandez Sanz" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > What's the current status of HPT 374 support? Is it working in any kernel > version? Unfortunately, in my experience the included kernel driver doesn't work reliable at all with my hardware either. I have tried all possible kernel versions up to and including 2.4.23-pre5 without success. > I know HP provides binaries, but that's no good, I need to use other > kernel > builds. The Highpoint proprietary drivers work fine in my case as well, but I'm not too happy about the fact that I simply can't access the SMART stats of my drivers at all for example. > > 2.4.20-8 detects the card and provides the devices but data corruptions > happens all the time. Using the HP drivers everything works fine (note I have tested the kernel hpt374 drivers with all possible kernel configurations with and without ACPI/APM, local apic, io-apic and they don't seem to change anything in my case. I just get the following error message sooner or later and the whole system hangs. Sep 26 23:07:42 alderan kernel: blk: queue c0466908, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Sep 26 23:07:42 alderan kernel: hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20 Sep 26 23:07:42 alderan kernel: hde: timeout waiting for DMA Sep 26 23:07:42 alderan kernel: hde: timeout waiting for DMA Sep 26 23:07:42 alderan kernel: blk: queue c0466d5c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Sep 26 23:07:42 alderan kernel: hdg: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20 Sep 26 23:07:42 alderan kernel: hdg: timeout waiting for DMA Sep 26 23:07:42 alderan kernel: hdg: timeout waiting for DMA It might be that my problems are somehow related to the motherboards I've been using, as the first one is "Epox 8K9A3+ (Via KT400 chipset)" while the another one is "Epox 4PCA3+ (Intel 875p chipset)". But they are 100% reproduceble with multiple brands of disk-drives. Regards, Tomi Orava