Re: [Cooker] HPT372 problems.

[Rolf Pedersen]

Stéphane Teletchéa wrote:
>>I only have a single, jbod drive on that controller with a line for
>>it in fstab and it is mounted automatically at boot.
>>/dev/sda5 /backup reiserfs defaults 1 2
>
>
> As i already told you, i cannot reach you point.
> I didn't look at it last week, but i'm coming back.
> I was wondering :
> - did you put some extra info on /etc/modules.conf ?

I did not but here are all the lines:

probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 ne2k-pci
above snd-card-cmipci snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-slot-0 cmpci

> - did you had another modules in /etc/modules ?

hpt37x2
scsi_hostadapter
hpt37x2

(I don't know why there is an extra hpt37x2 there. As you can see,
below, there was once only one but it has always worked once I set it up.)

> - do you use devfs ?

devfs=mount

> - did you made a special initrd ?

No, I just use the two groups of commands from the 'kernel upgrade' at MUO Docs; the installkernel script does that:

make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules
make modules_install && make install

>
> Can you send me copies of you /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and
/etc/fstab,
> like this, i could manage it by myself.
>

All the commands in modules and modules.conf are above; here is fstab:

/dev/hda11 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda5 /backup reiserfs defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda12 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
dev=/dev/hdd,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda10 /mnt/hd reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda13 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0


> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Stef.
>
> As soon as i get the answer, i'll put it on my web site !
>
>
BTW, the last kernel I compiled was 2.4.19-19. On 11/22, I sent a note, newer than the one you cite, above, to your @free.fr address. I'll put it below in case you did not get it.

[.......]

I am not sure exactly what steps you did, so I will outline, from
memory, what I do (I have done this several times).

Edit ide-pci.c in the kernel source per the readme in the driver
tarball, removing the two devid lines pertaining to hpt34x and hpt366.
Make mrproper, xconfig, load /boot/config, make one edit to add
apm_realtime_poweroff support (I need this for my machine to shut down), or some such, and build, then reboot to this kernel.
Build the driver, per the readme.
Move or copy the driver to /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdkcustom/kernel/drivers/ide/raid/
Run depmod -a
Put hpt37x2 in /etc/modules

As it turns out, I have another module in /etc/modules, somehow put
there after my edit:
hpt37x2
scsi_hostadapter

and the readme talks of modprobing another module before hpt37x2 but I
do not do that and thought perhaps the depmod -a takes care of it. Is
it coincidence that you have the same partition name in fstab as I do? I
think running diskdrake with the hpt module inserted will set up the
fstab and mount point directory that you choose, automatically. I can't
think of anything else but it is not impossible that I have overlooked
something.

Rolf