Well,... I uploaded to my sf account http://ocr812manager.sf.net/rh9_hpt37x.tgz

I will delete this file as soon as the people generate some feedbak. (don't know how stable it is).

Note that this time you can use the rh kernel when all is installed

Here goes some notes:

I wrote a "beta" README (for linux) and readme.txt (for dos).

I forgot 1 thing there:

In the last step of the install progress you sould go to the console
(control + alt + f2) and write:

chroot /mnt/sysimage

/sbin/mkinitrd -f --preload ataraid --preload ext3 --with=hptraid
/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8athlon.img 2.4.20-8athlon

/sbin/lilo

You can return to the graphical mode with "control + alt + f7"

Some considerations:

You must ONLY need to run lilo if you don't use grub (if you do this
the command will fail because /etc/lilo.conf does not exist, thats not a
problem).

about "/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8athlon.img 2.4.20-8athlon" the "athlon" of
both "2.4.20-8athlon" probably is not your case,... look at /boot/* to
obtain the real name.

Sharyr0lz

When I boot, first stage goes ok. It asks for the driver disk, which I then insert.

Says the only driver on the disk is a USB-Mass Storage driver, which I accept.

Then it boots into the graphical interface, which after a few questions gets me to the point where it asks for automatic or Disk Druid partition layout. Whichever I select it then immediately says it cannot find any disks, and dies.

Any Ideas?

If the installer say that "hpt37x2.o" from the 2nd floppy is not loaded.

Insert the 2nd floppy and then say "yes" to load the driver.

Note that the files from the directory "drivers" goes to / inside the floppy.

/modules.cgz is OK

/drivers/modules.cgz is BAD

In my computer the raid module is loaded as soon as you click "yes" (load drivers form a floppy) without selecting that from a driver menu.

Other problem can be that you are booting from the RedHat CD and not from the floppy.

.... and the same.

On ALT-F3?4? it shows the list of drivers that are available on the floppy, and HPT37x2 is there.

However, it is not given as an option in the install dd dialogue, and only Mass-USB storage (which is also shown above) is selectable.

My HPT372A has 2.33 bios (ie latest) .

Any further ideas?

Well I got it working with the 2.4.20 kernel with an ac2 patch. Thanks for the help

OK, evidently something with my setup isnt allowing the HPT372A to be detected.

Are you RAID cards on the motherboard, or are they the RocketRAID 133.

Mine is the RocketRAID 133 board connected to an Asus A7V333 motherboard.

I'm a kr7a-raid and kd7-raid user (abit).

Well an other user sent me some feedback: as soon you select "yes" (use disk driver from fd0) the installer displays a few seconds that it's "loading hpt37x2 module" without selecting that.

(He is another kd7-raid user, that's the same message the installer displays to me.).

Can someone who has this working, check what appears on the Alternative consoles when the Drive Disk is loaded so I can compare?

I see two lines from memory:

hpt37xa_something usb-storage xxxxxx
hpt37xa_something usb-storage xxxxxx Not Found

Do you get that?

hi all,

MDK 9.1 installation does not work with abit kr7a/RAID when you
try to install to an HD attached to the RAID controller.

the problem is :

All the installation (expert) works but hangs while it begins to configure
the X server.
The kernel stops while triing to access the HD.

i tried to insert (using the shell) the hpt37x2.o module from HPT
but it does not work (there is no way to prevent MDK to inserd the ataraid module)
It always hangs at the X server configuration.

Is it possible that to install the dist you MUST attach the HD to hda, install it,then by hand setting up the initrd ......etc...etc..???

The 2.4.21 kernel does not support well hpt372.

Some one has got an idea to solve this problem without open my
case?


Patton.

ehm sorry i forgot to say that there is NO manner to try to load
the module at the beginning of expert installation from the disk driver because it always complaints about the fact that the floppy is not an EXT2 floppy, EVEN IF IT IS.

any ideas?

PAtton

tarkie do this:

root@shark shark # lspci -b
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
00:08.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b)
00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b)
00:13.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a3)

root@shark shark # lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:3099
00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:b099
00:08.0 Class 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 08)
00:08.1 Class 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 08)
00:0d.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
00:11.0 Class 0601: 1106:3074
00:11.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
00:11.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 1b)
00:11.3 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 1b)
00:11.4 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 1b)
00:13.0 Class 0104: 1103:0004 (rev 05)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0150 (rev a3)
root@shark shark #

And now:

root@shark shark # cat rh9_hpt37x/driver/pcitable
0x1103 0x0004 "hpt37x2" "HighPoint|HPT370/372 ATA RAID Controller"
0x1103 0x0005 "hpt37x2" "HighPoint|HPT372A ATA RAID Controller"
root@shark shark #

You understand what can be the problem?
Verify that this IDs are OK for you.

You are trying a RedHat driver's floppy with mandrake,... isn't it?

I'm sorry about this,... this threand's name talks about mandrake and the posts talk about RedHat ( wow! )


Don't try to insert that mod,... this is not for mandrake install. Mandrake install uses hptraid (theoricaly this module works).

About install this to hda and then copy to ataraid,... yes you can. Probably you will need to do some chantes inside /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab but,... this can work

About kernel 2.4.21,... the kernel number inside mandrake is a fake. By now the kernel 2.4.21 is a prerelease.

About what to do,... can you bypass this parth of the install without setup the X server ?

This print some interesthing debug information?

no,

i am talking abaut that i use MDK 9.0
i compiled the hpt37x2.o (for the right kernel of mdk9.1) driver and made an ext2 floppy with the module inside.
MDK 9.1 still refuses to load this module at the beginning of installation because the floppy is not ext2.

any idea?

You can use the text mode console to mount the floppy and "insmod" hpt37x2.o manually

But,... if the system hangs up in the X configuration ... y think that's not an array problem.

Some debug about this?

sharkyr0lz,

When im in this part of the boot, Alt-F2 does not display a console prompt.

How do I enter the commands?