Greetings. I have a Soyo SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum motherboard, with a on-board IDE-RAID controller, HighPoint HPT372.
Looks like Linux detects it normally like any other IDE controller, I don't even have to use any module: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx HPT372: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 HPT372: chipset revision 5 HPT372: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later HPT370: using 33MHz PCI clock ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, 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 vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbc00-0xbc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbc08-0xbc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, ATA DISK drive hdd: LG DVD-ROM DRD-8160B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <- HPT 372 hdf: WDC WD200EB-3HBHF0, ATA DISK drive <- HPT 372 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xa400-0xa407,0xa802 on irq 10 hda: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=9732/255/63, UDMA(133) hdc: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=77557/16/63, (U)DMA hdf: 391022336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100) Everything looks normally. But following: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 hda14 hda15 hda16 hda17 hda18 > hdc: [PTBL] [4866/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdf: And that's it. Hangs here. Everything hangs. It doesn't even echo the keystrokes. Only CTRL+ALT+DEL works at this point. If I plug the hard disk on the VIA controller, it works. The problem isn't the HD or the partition table it contains. I already tried the other hard disks, and the same problem occurs. If I unplug the harddisk off the controller, the system boots. It looks strange that this problem is only occuring with a hard disk, and not with cd-rom drives. Notice that a cd record is plugged at /dev/hde. I already had done some search on google and on user archives, but found nothing related. By the way, I don't want to use RAID. I just want to use the HPT372 as an extra IDE controller. I don't even want to boot the system from it. Anyone? Thanks in advance. Rodrigo Configuration is: - Debian unstable up-to-date running 2.4.20 compiled by myself - Athlon XP 1800+ / 256 MB DDR - Soyo SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum - With the latest BIOS update - Chipset (north bridge) VIA KT-333 - High Point HPT 370/372 IDE-RAID controller (on-board) - Realtek 8100 Network device (on-board) - Prolink GeForce 2 MX 400 64 MB at the AGP slot - Sound Blaster Live! at the 5th slot - Realtek 8139C at the 6th slot - USB 1.1 enabled (on-board from VIA KT333) - USB 2.0 chipset enabled (on-board but apart from VIA KT333) - PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse - hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4 80 GB - hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40 GB - hdd: LG DVD-ROM DRD-8160B - hde: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100 - hdf: Western Digital WDC WD200EB-3HBHF0 20 GB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]