Subject: Re: HPT366 lockups
To: S.T.Chang <stchang@subdimension.com>
From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/10/2002 13:09:48
Ah, that sucks :(
Well, my second deskstar is an ATA100 (which has been running at ata66 since
thats all the hpt366 can do), so I'm just going to order a pci promise
ata100 controller.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:41:59AM +0800, S.T.Chang wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Sean Davis wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:47:56AM -0400, ipthomas@mac.com wrote:
> > <snip>
> ...
> >
> > Something else I just noticed while looking at the HPT366 driver from Linux
> > (linux/drivers/ide/hpt366.c), is that my second drive model (IC35L020AVER07-0)
> > is in a list called bad_ata66_4... I'm not sure if this means that a) the HPT366
> > can't handle that drive, or b) the Linux people didn't want to make the HPT366
> > driver handle it. I know the drive is not "bad" in any way, and the lockup is
> > the same one I've gotten with any other ata66 drive on that channel.
> 
> 
> HPT366 seems to have problem dealing with deskstar.
> Use to have the same lockup on my FreeBSD server.
> After replacing the HPT366 with a HPT370 RAID controller,
> the problem went away.
> .
> 

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