> Message: 7 > Subject: HPT302 (Rocket133) Issues > From: Brian Hanks <brice@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Organization: > Date: 09 Apr 2003 08:03:00 -0400 > Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > I just built a brand new RedHat 9 box with LVM on top of RAID-1. All > appeared to be well until I noticed that my drive geometry wasn't > looking quite right. I have a Rocket133 controller card and it is > appears to be displaying my drives geometry differently than the > motherboards onboard controller. Basically, I have three hard drives in > the system as follows: > /dev/hda - WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 9729/255/63 80GB MB primary channel > /dev/hde - Maxtor 6E040L0 4998/255/63 40GB HPT primary channel > /dev/hdg - WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 155061/16/63 80GB HPT secondary channel > > Notice that the two identical Western Digital drives are showing with > different geometry. The first drive is connected to the motherboard > controller (Asus P4PE) and the second and third drives are connected to > the Rocket133 (HPT302) controller. > > Why is the second WD drive showing with 16 heads instead of 255 like all > of my other drives? Something seemed a bit strange. So, I started to > try to install the Highpoint drivers instead of the standard drivers. > Unfortunately, they won't compile because they provide a pre-compiled > hpt302lib.o file that was compiled with gcc version 2. > > Any thoughts on how one might find a solution to this problem? > > Thanks, > -- > Brian Hanks <brice@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --__--__-- > > Message: 10 > Subject: Re: HPT302 (Rocket133) Issues > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Organization: > Date: 09 Apr 2003 14:19:29 +0200 > Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > --=-kJzh1Fl2nm+GcN0DBpUS > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:03, Brian Hanks wrote: > > > Why is the second WD drive showing with 16 heads instead of 255 like all > > of my other drives? > > bioses set the first disk to fake 16 heads for MSDOS compatability.=20 That I am aware of, but I don't think it explains the issue at hand. First, it seems that the disk marked as the boot disk (/dev/hda) would be most likely to cause this problem, but it does not. Second, it seems as though the problem should be consistent for each controller, but it is not. There are two distinctly different behaviors among the two disks (/dev/hde & /dev/hdg) attached to the HPT controller. From what I see, it seems that the HPT controller is treating the 80GB disk differently than the 40GB disk. Brian Hanks brice@xxxxxxxxxx
