Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:22:34 +0400 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: Status of HPT372A driver? |
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Hail.
Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> I recently acquired a HighPoint RocketRaid 1520 SATA controller (I know, > I know, bad choice but I just need something to tide me over until I can > upgrade to a motherboard with AHCI love). This presents as a HPT372A:
> 00:09.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT372A/372N (rev 01) > 00:09.0 0104: 1103:0005 (rev 01)
Sigh, I had no chance to test the driver on this chip myself... And I also haven't tried the driver on SATA drives at all... :-/
> The 2.6.17 hpt366.c driver is at version 0.36. I also found your patches > to l-k earlier this year, but I'm not sure whether I got them all as I > had some rejects; I ended up with a version 1.00 driver as at:
Some patch was recast, maybe this was the reason...
> http://the.earth.li/~noodles/hpt366.c
I'm surprised that this has even compiled! It has check_in_drive_lists() defined twice...
> Is there somewhere I can get your latest work without having to try to > pick the right patches from the l-k archives?
You may find the summary patch in the -mm tree I guess if you hit the V link against the -mm patch at the top of www.kernel.org page, like this one:
http://www.kernel.org/diff/diffview.cgi?file=%2Fpub%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fpeople%2Fakpm%2Fpatches%2F2.6%2F2.6.18-rc1%2F2.6.18-rc1-mm2%2F2.6.18-rc1-mm2.bz2;z=647
> Also I'm getting fairly appalling speeds; I don't know if this is thie > card or not, but I have a SATA II capable drive (I know the controller > is only SATA I) attached that's getting detected as:
> hde: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(33)
Hm, looks like the drive is wrongly reported as blacklisted or the cable being somehow misdetected... Ah, this was SATA drive, you say?
> I'd expect UDMA(133) or similar instead? hdparm -Tt gives:
I also would, at least UDMA(100)... :-)
> /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 984 MB in 2.00 seconds = 491.58 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 90 MB in 3.00 seconds = 30.00 MB/sec > > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 940 MB in 2.00 seconds = 469.89 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 172 MB in 3.04 seconds = 56.66 MB/sec > > /dev/hde: > Timing cached reads: 1012 MB in 2.01 seconds = 504.48 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 44 MB in 3.05 seconds = 14.43 MB/sec
> (sda is an old 36GB SCSI disk on an Adaptec 2940, hda is a Maxtor on the > internal VIA PATA controller. I'd expected hde to at least outperform > sda.)
Output of hdparm -iI /dev/hde would also be helpful.
> Relevent dmesg output is:
> HPT372A: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11 > PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] - > GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > HPT372A: chipset revision 1 > HPT372A: DPLL base: 66 MHz, f_CNT: 99, assuming 33 MHz PCI > HPT372A: using 66 MHz DPLL clock > HPT372A: 100%% native mode on irq 11 > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio > Probing IDE interface ide2... > hde: WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0, ATA DISK drive > ide2 at 0xa000-0xa007,0xa402 on irq 11
Well, this looks sane...
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