Highpoint HPT372A with Mandrake 9.1

Ive seen on Bugzilla that this is meant to be working fine, but I've got problems

Firstly, flashed card to latest highpoint bios, from highpoint-tech.com

Installation went fine, all automatic

Lilo fails on boot with L 01 01 01 01 01 01

Any ideas?

Did you install the Highpoint module? They provide a boot disk for install and some other oddities, the HPT372 isn't in the kernel yet, its in 2.5.x but they're being slow as Christmas in backporting it to 2.4.x.

The LILO error is it not being able to find the drive at all, that's why.

Cheers,

Finegan

OK, so if I want to build from a stock 9.1 CD, how do i get the module loaded from floppy?

Or.... How do I get 9.1 installed with a 2.5.x kernel?

I supose that the kernel included in the mandrake 9.1 installer works fine.

I think that some one in mandrake thouht that droping the partition table of /dev/hdX (if the table is corrupt) could be a good idea,...

My array whas dropped by this reason. I LOST ALL MY DATA.

Whell,... i have my RedHat 9 install binaries ready to upload (untested by the moment) .

I will NOT build Mandrake 9.1 boot files,... (I don't wish to loose my data again).

Finegan ,... whant the new file for the mirror? :P.

sharkyr0lz,

So, option 3:

Download Redhat 9?

Will this build straight from CD - Im using the RAID controller just to concat the disks.

Whell,... in that version i will include 2 floppies inside a tar.gz.

You will need to boot from 1 of them and load de driver in the 2nd one without entering any console.

- In the installation you will work with an scsi emulation driver
- Once the installation ends you will work with the driver included inside the kernel. (probably you will only need to rebuild your initrd with the initrd command.)

It will work "without any more problems" (TM) with raid 0 ( "concatenate",...

____________________________________

About the mandrake and bugzilla:

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=78

I posted it today

And,... and an other poor english post from Outlook express O:-) :

https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail...ch/001599.html

OK, downloading overnight, can you have the floppies uploaded for tomorrow?

Pweeeeeeeeeeze?

I have some hosting problems,... and the files are untested by the moment (I'm now using gentoo,... will not try RedHat )

But,... now that you have your HD's clean you can try this for me .

Send me your email throught private message and you i will send this directly if you want.

Well i must sleep a bit .

I thought that the hpt327a was supported in the alan cox patch ac2 for 2.4.20?

I have patched it and compiled it, but when I tried to modprobe hptraid it faild. And I have added the hpt366 module.
Anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Linux shark 2.4.21-pre5-ac3 #1 SMP lun abr 7 12:39:53 CEST 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux



Well,... i tested lots of kernels and ".config" files with this kenels. I don't see that really clear,... :/

Lots of them crasshes,... others works with some configs but,... this config in an other working kernel can also crash,...

Here goes my actually working ".config" file: http://www.terra.es/personal2/capullator/.config

Other kernels i try where:


Works:
- 2.4.21-pre5-ac3 (my actual kernel)
- Actual redhat 9 (post install) kernel.
- Actual redhat 9 source code.
- 2.4.20-ac2-preemtive (don't remember about 2.4.20-ac2).


- Mandrake 9.1 installer's kernel. (didn't try the postinstall one).
- Gentoo 1.4_rc3 installer's kernel.

Doesn't work:
- 2.4.20 doesn't work for me
- Actual gentoo-sources
- knoppix 3.2 kernell
- SuperRescue 2 2.1.??? (last i try).

I have NEVER build 2.5.

Hmm, for some reason its not letting me PM you,

so:

steve @ <insert my username here> dot net

Originally posted by sharkyr0lz Finegan ,... whant the new file for the mirror? :P.

Sharky, good to see you still poking around. Yeah, mail me a new tarball, or point me at where I can download it off of you.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks for the .config sharkyr0lz, I have based my config from that. But When I boot now I can't find hda1. hda get this /dev/lun0/host0/....
but now I at least can find the two hd's connected to the raid controller. You got any advice?

finegan: OK,... I will send you the tar as soon as tarkie tests the binaries.

jekyl: I only use cdroms in the standard ide,... try without devfs ( devfs=nomount at boot time or without "automount devfs" at filesystems section.) My actual distribution (gentoo) require devfs.

Here some ls's:

root@shark portage # ls /dev/hd*
hde hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 hdg
root@shark portage # ls /dev/cd* -l
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 2003-04-08 22:37 /dev/cdrecorder -> cdroms/cdrom1
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 2003-04-08 20:37 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 2003-04-08 22:37 /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd

/dev/cdroms:
total 0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 1970-01-01 01:00 cdrom0 -> ../scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 1970-01-01 01:00 cdrom1 -> ../scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd
root@shark portage # ls /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target*/lun0/cd
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd
root@shark portage #


Remember,... i use ide-scsi in both CDROM drives

Sharky,

I'd be very interested in being a guinea pig for trying out your new disks as well (either Mandrake 9.1 or RH9) since my system doesn't have much stuff on it yet. If you have a link or if you can send them via email that would be great. You prior disks seem to work great for me besides the fact they had no SMP support built-in.

D.D.