I am heading out to a meeting so can give more details later, but in a nutshell: as soon as the drives are recognized as "hd-" anything it will not work. There needs to be loaded first a module, something like hpt370.o through initrd that will allow the system to see the drives as a single SCSI drive. When you see "sd-" anything coming up in the messages you are likely on the way there. Which distro are you using? RH or SuSE? Both of these and Caldera have pre-compiled kernels available through the Highpoint website and are accompanied by initrd files and modules and instructions to install. New install is much easier. Later. Richard http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ for the files. On Monday 04 March 2002 12:15 pm, you wrote: > hi there. > > i'm trying to get my HPT370 raid working under linux.. > here's my system: > Abit BP6 Mainboard > Dawicontrol HPT370A Raid Controller > 2 WDC WD800BB 80 GB ide drives > kernel: 2.4.18 or 2.4.17. try both.. > > I've already updated the controller bios to the newest version. > The raid gets detected by the driver software but : > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hde: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB > Cache, CHS=155061/16/63 > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hdg: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB > Cache, CHS=155061/16/63 > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, > DMA > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: Partition check: > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hdb: hdb1 > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hde:hde: lost interrupt > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hde: lost interrupt > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp last message repeated 2 times > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: unknown partition table > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hdg:hdg: lost interrupt > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hdg: lost interrupt > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp last message repeated 2 times > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: unknown partition table > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices) > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.24 > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at > 0xd080c000, 00:50:22:40:4a:6e, IRQ 11 > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff > Hartmann > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp > memory: 203M > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hde: lost interrupt > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: hdg: lost interrupt > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: ataraid/d0:hde: lost interrupt > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: unknown partition table > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for > linux version 0.01 > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: Drive 0 is 76319 Mb > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: Drive 1 is 76319 Mb > Mar 4 02:10:35 ftp kernel: Raid array consists of 2 drives. > > lost interrupt... I really don't know how to fix this problem. > > so I would be glad if someone could help me. > > Thanks > > Thorsten Klingert
