Nick Maynard <nick@tastycake.net> writes: >> I'm running four disks off a RocketRAID 1540 SATA card with Linux >> software RAID since kernel 2.6.0. The driver included with the kernel >> works just fine. Any card using the hpt374 chip should work, whatever >> the name on the box happens to be. > Yea. You should note that I have a Rocket 1540, not a RocketRAID > 1540. There's a difference More than the box and the BIOS? > - shown particularly by the fact that Highpoint release open drivers > for the RocketRAID and not the Rocket. I wouldn't use those drivers, having looked briefly at the source code they do release. It wasn't pretty. > Should doesn't necessarily mean does, unfortunately. Could the onboard bios be messing with you? Can it be disabled? I'm using the card in an Alpha machine that pretty much ignores the bios extensions. > My reasoning was exactly the same as yours, except it's bitten me > where it hurts... > >> Perfectly good drivers are included with the kernel. > And this is where I got bitten. The standard kernel drivers (HPT374 > is supported by hpt366.o) in 2.6.5 (and 2.4.something) lock up on > boot, during the probe bit I think. Are you using any other module? I'm using the htp366 driver. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
