Hi.
I tried to install woody using the bf2.4-images 3.0.22-2002-04-03 on this machine: athlon xp, 512MByte on a Shuttle AK35GTR (BIOS AK35H00F, includes latest HighPoint-BIOS) with an UDMA133-controller HighPoint372 (it's AFAIK not the 372A); this EIDE-controller is also used on the Shuttle AK35GTR2, the Abit KR7A-RAID and the Abit KX7-333R. the HighPoint chip is often referred to as hpt372 or hpt37x2 or simply hpt. on each hpt-channel I put a WesternDigital600AB configured as RAID0 via the hpt-BIOS. one DVD-drive is attached to the VIA-controller. I know, that it's probably preferable not to use this pseudo-RAID- option and that there are better software solutions (and of course much better hardware solutions) out there but let me give it a try. FreeBSD4.5 got the first 16GBytes of the RAID; therefore I used the precompiled driver from http://www.highpoint-tech.com/372drivers_down.htm and it works fine, though the driver using SCSI-emulation is surly far from optimum. bootstrapping from the floppies the following messages appear: boot: Loading linux.bin..................... ready Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Sam Mär 30 00:56:06 CET 2002 . . . Kernel command line: vga=normal noinitrd load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/fd0 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4 BOOT_IMAGE=linux.bin . . . Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb450, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: aussuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3099] at 00:00.0 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Journalled Block Device driver loaded vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ?jfà?uC??S?fà?u:ïF,?=??: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 ?jfà?uC??S?fà?u:ïF,?=??: chipset revision 5 ?jfà?uC??S?fà?u:ïF,?=??: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:11.1. Please try using pci=biosirq. VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:11.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hda: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1612, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: WDC WD600AB-60CBA0, ATA DISK drive hdg: WDC WD600AB-00BVA0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide2 at 0xc400-0xc407,0xc802 on irq 5 ide3 at 0xcc00-0xcc07,0xd002 on irq 5 hde: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=116301/16/63, UDMA(100) hdg: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=116301/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: ATAPI 48x DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv Partition check: hde: [PTBL] [7297/255/63] hde1 hdg: unknown partition table Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Loading I2O Core - (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software I2O configuration manager v 0.04. (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Compaq CISS Driver (v 2.4.5) HDLC support module revision 1.02 for Linux 2.4 Cronyx Ltd, Synchronious PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994 Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak. ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01 Drive 0 is 57241 Mb Drive 1 is 57241 Mb Raid array consists of 2 drives. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Read Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver, Mar 30 2002 DC390: 0 adapters found 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.016. 3w-xxxx: No cards with valid units found. request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted i2c_scsi.c: Version 0.0.1 chain_pool: 0 bytes @ c1857440 (512 byte buffers X 4 can_queue X 0 i2o controllers) NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 260 k freed usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs . . . cdrom: open failed. VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,0) and then the installation system starts. this surprised me a little bit, because many people reported kernel- panics when attempting to get the hpt372 working with the hpt370- linux-driver. anyway, these messages don't look comfortable. I googled for hpt372-linux-support and this is what I found: HighPoint offers GPL'd drivers which use AFAIK SCSI-emulation :-( : http://www.highpoint-tech.com/372drivers_down.htm I don't want to use them. Jack Kolesar manually patched ide-pci.c and mentions the AlanCox- kernel: http://www.amdpower.com/sections.php4?op=viewarticle&artid=71 this file should do the same: http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/kernel-hpt372.patch Andy Jeffries asking Alan Cox for help in getting the patch into the official kernel: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.0/0649.html ok, these infos should give us hpt372-support. the latest chip by HighPoint is AFAIK the hpt374; I think that implementing support for this one wouldn't be a big effort, so I suggest to add it, too. now, making the RAID work: Arjan van de Ven from Redhat and others work on really good drivers: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/ these dmesg-lines indicate the use of Ven's sources, at least I think so: ... ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01 Drive 0 is 57241 Mb Drive 1 is 57241 Mb Raid array consists of 2 drives. ... I don't know if displaying 'HPT370' should make me worry. but hey, /dev/ataraid/d0 is available! I prefer Ven's driver over the use of /dev/md0, etc. as described on http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html . on debianhelp.org someone described how he made his RAID work, but it's not the way I would like to do it: http://www.debianhelp.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=808 so my question: could you please add support for the hpt372 to the floppy-images? or could you tell me where to get info about building my own floppy-images or at least patching bf2.4? TIA. OT: BTW; what does this mean? PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:11.1. Please try using pci=biosirq. ciao hog -- Managers occasionally wore ties, but productivity went down on the days they did. -- The Cuckoo's Egg, Cliff Stoll, 1990 - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
