Problems installing an Highpoint Rocket 133 IDE controller
 

Hi

I have trouble getting my Highpoint Rocket 133 IDE controller to work under various distros (Mandriva 2007, Knoppix 5.0.2, Puppy 1.0.2). In Drakconf, the controller is detected, but the harddisk name is not reported correctly, instead there are some cryptic signs. Also, the disk capacity is wrong. I can not partition the disk with diskdrake. Under Windows, the controller works fine. No problem with the HD's neither: on onboard controller they all work flawless with Linux. What is going wrong here? I didn't do anything, I just let Linux detect the hardware after installing it.

Thanks for your help

Edit: I tried to launch Harddrake again. This time I noticed the following in console:

Warning: skip "need_pkgs_offered_by_club" field => "0"

Warning: skip "sysfs_device" field => "/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:08.0"

modinfo: could not find module hpt366

Is it missing the driver? If yes how can I get it, I'm not too experienced in compiling.

Nobody any ideas? Smartctl and hdparm detect the drive attached to the controller, but Qtparted doesn't. And I still didn't succeded in installing a Linux distro on this drive.

The drive is detected, but drive name and more important size is not detected (a 2GB is detected as having several TB!!!!)

How do I tell the Linux kernel I have that controller card?

If it helps:
unable to locate RSDP
is displayed at boot time when using Xubuntu. After that i/o errors on hde on same adress

I finally found the solution: it was the 1.22 BIOS that was faulty! Downgraded to 1.21 and everything is working fine. Strange ...