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SubjectRe: HPT366 and SMP

What is the drive?

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Rafael D'Halleweyn wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I seem to have a problem with the HPT366 IDE controller on my Abit BP6
> dual Celeron board.
>
> I compiled a 2.2.12 kernel with the uniform IDE patch
> (http://opensource.captech.com/LinuxIDE/:
> 2.2.10.uniform-ide-6.20.draco.patch). When both CPUs are on the board and
> I stress test a drive on the controller (dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/null
> bs=204800 count=2000), this will hang the machine after a while. The
> machine hangs more quickly if I do some network stuff as well (tcpblast).
>
> If I use the same kernel, but with only CPU, the test keeps on running for
> ever.
>
> If I use two CPUs but with the HPT driver disabled in the kernel, I do not
> see any problems either (but the drive is really slow, no DMA).
>
> I also tried 2.3.18, but there I have the same problems. Also note that
> the drive seems much slower then with 2.2.
>
> I can repeat the problem when I insert a HPT366 card on the same
> motherboard and attach the drive to that controller.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Rafael D'Halleweyn
> rdhall@mail.dma.be
>
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