hpt370 raid driver

hpt370 raid driver

[Petr Slansky]

Hi Alan!
do you know that there is a source code of driver for HPT370 raid at the
manufacturer web?

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_down.htm
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz

Maybe that this can be added to the kernel, there are many motherboards on the
market with such controller onboard. Is there any poblem with this driver?

As I know, hpt370 is supported only in IDE mode by kernel 2.4.18.

With regards,
Petr


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  Petr Slansky, slansky@usa.net
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Re: hpt370 raid driver

[Arjan van de Ven]

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On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:29, Petr Slansky wrote:
> Hi Alan!
> do you know that there is a source code of driver for HPT370 raid at the
> manufacturer web?
> 
> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_down.htm
> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz
> 
> Maybe that this can be added to the kernel, there are many motherboards on the
> market with such controller onboard. Is there any poblem with this driver?

It's a binary only driver with some glue code.... not open source.

> 
> As I know, hpt370 is supported only in IDE mode by kernel 2.4.18.

and in raid0 mode by hptraid

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven


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Re: hpt370 raid driver

[Wilfried Weissmann]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:29, Petr Slansky wrote:
> 
>>Hi Alan!
>>do you know that there is a source code of driver for HPT370 raid at the
>>manufacturer web?
>>
>>http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_down.htm
>>http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz
>>
>>Maybe that this can be added to the kernel, there are many motherboards on the
>>market with such controller onboard. Is there any poblem with this driver?
> 
> 
> It's a binary only driver with some glue code.... not open source.

The header files are good. They show the structure of the raid signature 
and some info about the event logs. They could be reused by the linux 
module, however I do not know if the copyright is a problem there. Does 
anyone know...?

Bye,
Wilfried

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Re: hpt370 raid driver

[Alan Cox]

> The header files are good. They show the structure of the raid signature 
> and some info about the event logs. They could be reused by the linux 
> module, however I do not know if the copyright is a problem there. Does 
> anyone know...?

I dont think it shows anything our hptraid module doesnt alreayd know

Re: hpt370 raid driver

[Wilfried Weissmann]

Alan Cox wrote:
>>The header files are good. They show the structure of the raid signature 
>>and some info about the event logs. They could be reused by the linux 
>>module, however I do not know if the copyright is a problem there. Does 
>>anyone know...?
> 
> 
> I dont think it shows anything our hptraid module doesnt alreayd know

Oops! You are right. Most of the structures are for internal driver 
stuff. The only useful thing might be the magic numbers and maybe the 
ErrorLog struct, but no raid-signature. :(

Greetings,
Wilfried
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Benedikt-Schellingergasse 18/19a      Tel.: +43 1 78 64 739
1150 Wien                             Mobil: +43 676 944 44 65

Re: hpt370 raid driver

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:29:54PM +0100, Petr Slansky wrote:
 > do you know that there is a source code of driver for HPT370 raid at the
 > manufacturer web?
 > 
 > http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_down.htm
 > http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz

 Highpoint have a strange concept of 'opensource'.

 (davej@halogen:davej)$ tar zxvf hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz 
 rules.mak
 Makefile
 hpt.c
 hptkern.h
 hptglb.h
 hpt.h
 hpt37x2lib.o
 readme.txt

 (davej@halogen:davej)$ ll hpt37x2lib.o 
 -rw-r--r--    1 davej    davej       63639 Apr  5 21:35 hpt37x2lib.o
 
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| SuSE Labs

Re: hpt370 raid driver

[Andre Hedrick]

drwxr-xr-x    2 root          270 Sep 24 21:02 .
drwxr-xr-x   82 root         3296 Sep 24 21:00 ..
-rw-------    1 root         1163 Apr  1 08:06 Makefile
-rw-------    1 root        37777 Apr  5 12:34 hpt.c
-rw-------    1 root         1925 Feb 26  2002 hpt.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root        63639 Apr  5 12:35 hpt37x2lib.o
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Binary RAID Library,  Thank you, have a nice day "TAINT"

-rw-r--r--    1 root        55051 Apr 18 10:14 hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root        28789 Apr  3 12:46 hptglb.h
-rw-------    1 root         1765 Mar 28 08:52 hptkern.h
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root         5402 Apr  5 12:38 readme.txt
-rw-------    1 root          841 Mar  1  2002 rules.mak


On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Petr Slansky wrote:

> Hi Alan!
> do you know that there is a source code of driver for HPT370 raid at the
> manufacturer web?
> 
> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_down.htm
> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz
> 
> Maybe that this can be added to the kernel, there are many motherboards on the
> market with such controller onboard. Is there any poblem with this driver?
> 
> As I know, hpt370 is supported only in IDE mode by kernel 2.4.18.
> 
> With regards,
> Petr
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------
>   Petr Slansky, slansky@usa.net
> ---------------------------------
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