My own limited experience with the HPT chip says that IDE functionality will pose no problem at all. Your drives will simply be recognized at hde, hdf, hd... and so on. As I recall from the manual, if you elected to use the raid ability, not all raid functions are supported. As I recall the on-board controller will support raid 0 and raid 1, but not raid 0+1 or raid 5. I may well be corrected on the specifics of this but it seems that the only way to get all raid functions from the same chip was to purchase it in an add-on board. Support for the IDE function is built in to the kernel I think under a HPT366 support option. I used the Abit board with on-board HPT370 for some time and had no direct IDE problems at all. At one time I had 8 drives connected: 5 hd, CD-ROM, CD-R, and DVD. All functioned well, if you can discount operator confusion. It seems to me that the HighPoint drivers are for raid functions only. Richard On Friday 08 March 2002 06:32 pm, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't know if this is the right list, but it seems the closest I can > find. Please let me know if I am off-topic. Thanks. :-) > > > I am considering the purchase of a motherboard with an onboard Highpoint > HPT-372 ide raid controller. However, the only drivers I have been able > to find are the Highpoint binary-only drivers, which come with a custom > binary-only kernel. I don't want to use these drivers because I don't > like the idea of not being able to upgrade my kernel if a problem arises. > > Is there any alternative? Will hpt366.c or hptraid.c work? I don't need > RAID at all, just standard IDE functionality. > > Elsewhere in this list I saw this posted by Gu Mingming: > > I found this is caused by a programming error in hpt366.c, > > it uses revision id as an array index to display name > > string, however HPT372's revision is 5 which is an outbound > > index! > > You can modify the file yourself and build a new kernel to > > solve it before it was modified in Linux releases. > > Is this small change be enough to get standard IDE functionality out of > the hpt372 or is a lot more work needed? Again, I don't need RAID, just > standard IDE functionality. > > Thanks for any help. > > > Regards, > Lorenzo > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
