[plug] HPT-370

[Brad Campbell]

G'day all,
I have an Abit-KT7-RAID motherboard at home that I can't get more than 
about 10-15 MB/s from the secondary ide port.
This board has the HPT-370 RAID on board and I thought I could use that 
chip purely as an extra ide controller.
When I plug a drive into it, the kernel hangs after detecting the 
standard on-board drives.
I have compiled the HPT-370 driver in and if I unplug the drive from the 
HPT the system works fine.

Has anyone used one of these chips before?
Do I have to use the hpt bios to stripe the drive before I do anything 
with it?
I already have 80GB on this disk and want to avoid having to 
backup/restore this data if at all possible.

As to the 10-15 MB/s on the secondary port. I can plug the disk into the 
primary port and get 30MB/s off the bat.
hdparm settings are the same for hda,b,c&d
Cables are identical.

Brad