Wil Reichert wrote:
 >> could you try the attachted patch, and report if this changes
 >> something?
 >
 >
 > Applied patch & rebuilt with hpt366 as a module.  No more oops, dmesg
 > prints the following:
 >
 > HPT372A: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0 HPT372A: chipset revision
 > 2 HPT372A: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later hpt: HPT372N
 > detected, using 372N timing. FREQ: 126 PLL: 45 hpt: no known IDE
 > timings, disabling DMA. hpt: no known IDE timings, disabling DMA.

it looks like the controller is detected as a HPT372N instead of a 
HPT372A. the attached patch disables this check.

 >
 > It has 2 drives attached to it, neither seems to be found.
 >
 > Other things: the 2.5.xx seems to work ok and my board supports some
 > 'RAID 1.5' which seems to be nothing more than PR crap and some
 > firmware hacks.  Could that cause problems?

raid 15 is a mirrored raid 5, which should provide high availability and 
good performance (even in the case of a disk failure). but in this case 
it is nothing more than a software solution. ;)

 >
 > Wil

bye,
wilfried