Ive been fighting with the HPT366 controller for ages.
Just last night i got them working fine with (2.2.12 through to 2.2.15)
+ ide patch on my dual celeron bp6 using 5 drives, 1 from and intel
channel, 2 from the onboard hpt366 and 2 from the pci hpt366.
I can do "cat /dev/hdx >/dev/null" (x is drive letter) concurrently on
all 5 drives, i tried raid or done any benchmarks yet, i dont expect
them to be very good at all, but at least they work in DMA mode !
If you are getting DMA timeouts, you make sure you HAVE NOT select the
HPT366 Fast Interrupts option, this will actually make casue DMA
timeouts.
As for the lockups, i used to get them on boot right where it detects
the partitions, but im not getting them now, im not sure if this is
related to Fast Interrupts or not.
If you havent discovered it already, there is a linux-abit mailing list
that you can browse at
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-abit%40listserv.geek.net/
Check you havent selected the evil the evil fast interrupt option, check
you have selected shared interrupts (if its there?), try and get it
working correctly without raid, load your drives up individually by
using cat.
Once you have the underlying structure working adding raid should cause
no problems. (i hope)
Good luck, let me know if you still have problems.
Glenn
