Subject: Re: HPT366 lockups
To: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
From: S.T.Chang <stchang@subdimension.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/11/2002 00:41:59
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.
.