Hi, I am Albert Solana, an employee of technical department of C3PO (our company). We have bought an ATA RAID Controller HighPoint RocketRaid 454 and we have problem using it with our server, which uses Debian/Sarge with 2.6.8 kernel version. After compiling its source driver [1] version 2.13 and using its module hpt374, kernel logs shows some errors at the kernel log (with Abort and Reset pid errors), which we think that they are a kernel timeout connecting with scsi driver (sd_mod module is also loaded). And when we try to format disk (using RAID5 with 3 200GB IDE disks), the server hangs showing some errors of Abort and Reset pid errors. Does any of you installed a similar raid controller? We also noticed that a similar version of this driver (hpt366) is built in the kernel and in initrd, so it is loaded when system boots. And we think that this module can conflict with the newer one. Is there any option to prevent loading this module when system boots? The log is shown as follows: hpt374: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted. hpt374: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. HPT374 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller driver Version 2.13, Compiled Oct 18 2005 13:34:59 RAID5 write-back enabled PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:13.0 (0005 -> 0007) PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:13.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:13.1 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:13.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:13.0 scsi0 : hpt374 Vendor: HPT3xx Model: RAID 5 Array Rev: 3.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sda: 796593920 512-byte hdwr sectors (407856 MB) sda: asking for cache data failed sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:hpt374: Abort called pid: 5 target: 0 lun: 0 flags: 1 reason 0 hpt374: Reset called pid: 5 target: 0 lun: 0 flags: 1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Thanks in advance. [1] http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20+% 20Driver/rr454/Linux/hpt374-opensource-v2.13.tgz -- Albert Solana Berengué asb@xxxxxxx C3PO, S.L. C/Bertran, 113 - 08023 Barcelona Tel. 93 417 99 55 - Fax. 93 253 12 80 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
