On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Marshal Newrock wrote:
> HPT372 IDE RAID chip on an Abit K7RA-RAID
> running a freshly installed Gentoo (has gcc-2.95)
> kernel 2.4.19rc3, using devfs.
> Western Digital 40GB ATA100 drive on /dev/hde, one partition, ext2
> filesystem.
>
> The system has no problem recognizing the HPT372, and can see the drive
> and partitions. I can generally mount it (mount /dev/hde1 /mnt), and 'ls
> /mnt' lists the directories. 'ls -l /mnt' will give an 'input/output
> error' for each directory. Sometimes the ls or mount will hang, and I
> have to kill the login from another shell.
>
> Right now, I have the drive connected as /dev/hdc (replacing the CD
> drives), and working fine.
>
> I'm sure more info is needed, so tell me what you want me to do to help
> troubleshoot this. Please reply to me off-list as I am not subscribed.
The -ac kernels contain some IDE updates including updates to hpt366.c
(AFAIR the HPT372 isn't really supported in 2.4.19-rc3). Could you try
whether 2.4.19-rc3-ac3 (apply [1] on top of 2.4.19-rc3 and run
"make clean oldconfig dep bzImage modules") fixes your problem?
> Thanx. :)
cu
Adrian
[1] ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.19/patch-2.4.19-rc3-ac3.gz
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