[WBEL-users] High Point HPT-372 drivers

[Lamar Owen]

On Sunday 20 March 2005 16:59, keith morse wrote:
> Just wondering if any list members are using this chipset on Whitebox or
> other RHEL derivatives.  It appears to be a slighty older chipset and the
> only drivers appear to be for RH9 and are binary only.

Umm, I have a machine (my primary personal webserver) with:
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. 
HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT370A
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 120, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at a800 [size=8]
        I/O ports at ac00 [size=4]
        I/O ports at b000 [size=8]
        I/O ports at b400 [size=4]
        I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

/var/log/messages:

Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO 
modes; override with idebus=xx
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: HPT372: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> GSI 11 
(level, low) -> IRQ 11
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: HPT372: chipset revision 5
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: HPT372: 100% native mode on irq 11
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel:     ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: 
hde:DMA, hdf:pio
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel:     ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: 
hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hde: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DISK drive
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: Using cfq io scheduler
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: ide2 at 0xc800-0xc807,0xcc02 on irq 11
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hdg: Maxtor 6Y250P0, ATA DISK drive
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: ide3 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xd402 on irq 11
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> GSI 10 
(level, low) -> IRQ 10
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs 
later
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller 
on pci0000:00:11.1
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: 
hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings: 
hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hda: Maxtor 6Y250P0, ATA DISK drive
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hdc: _NEC NR-7700A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Mar 14 18:48:43 www autofs: automount startup succeeded
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hde: max request size: 1024KiB
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hde: 320173056 sectors (163928 MB) w/7936KiB 
Cache, CHS=19929/255/63, UDMA(133)
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel:  hde: hde1
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hdg: max request size: 1024KiB
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hdg: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/7936KiB 
Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(133)
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel:  hdg: hdg1
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hda: max request size: 1024KiB
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hda: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/7936KiB 
Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(133)
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel:  hda: hda1 hda2
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, 
DMA
Mar 14 18:48:43 www kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

It Just Works with CentOS 4.  But, then again, I'm not using the fakeraid 
stuff, I'm using it as a simple IDE controller.  The HTP372 is not a hardware 
RAID controller, but an IDE controller with software and a little hardware 
acceleration for some things.  Works great for a regular IDE port with the 
regular IDE drivers.  I also used this same box with CentOS 3.4, so a RHEL3 
clone Just Works with the controller too.

In particular:
[root at www ~]# uname -a
Linux www.lamarowen.net 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL #1 Sat Feb 19 18:26:49 CST 2005 i686 
athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root at www ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.0 (Final)
[root at www ~]#

So I don't see why it wouldn't just work (without using the fakeraid 
features!) out of the box with WBEL.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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