[plug] HPT-370

[Bill Kenworthy]

I have an abit-kt7a-raid

hda...hdd are the standard controller, hde...hdh are the raid chip

I thought the only use for the kernel plugin was for compatibility if
you wanted to access the raid drive under windows/linux, this might be
your problem - I am not using it.

BillK

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 13:04, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 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
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