[plug] HPT-370

[Brad Campbell]

Rob Davies wrote:

> Have you given lilo its commands about the extra controller, 
> also the 2.4.19 kernel later editions actually has the drivers 
> for the hpt *** ide controller.
> 
> disk = /dev/hd*
> 	bios=0x80
> disk =/dev/hd*
> 	bios=0x81
> 
> This goes into lilo in the first part of config, also the drive 
> that is bootable is the one you put in above config first.
> 
> Make sure you have the bios turned on for hpt controller via 
> boot sequence although kernel does not really need this with 
> later variants as it does its own bios configuration based on 
> lilo or grub maybe even intrid information.
> hth
> ciao

Fixed it last night.. the problem turned out to be kernel 2.4.20
Upgraded to 2.4.21-pre3 and all went well. Checking the changelog
Alan Cox submitted some HPT driver changes somewhere around -pre1
and -pre2.

Thanks for the input guys.

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Brad....
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