[Cooker] RC2 Mandrake Control Center hangs setting up eth1..................

[Andy Schmidt]

Hiwhen trying to configure eth1 (a wireless lan pcmcia card) using
the wizard in Mandrake Control center, when i finish entering details
such as WEP encryption key and such and proceed to finish the config
process, the wizard hangs and will not complete without me ejecting
pcmcia card in which case the config data is not saved.

If i try this same process via Harddrake, the procedure works fine.

Re: [Cooker] Highpoint hpt 372/374 ata133/raid controller statuswith 9.0b1???

[Andy Schmidt]

...well that message is dated 16th March..hopefully being August 4th
might help matters...i am about to run up 9.0beta2
on my system...maybe it's been fixedi sure hope so..how long
haqs the hpt372/374 been out? a year and a half??...i'm basically
floored that this is still a n issue with mandrake

Re: [Cooker] Highpoint hpt 372/374 ata133/raid controller statuswith 9.0b1???

[Andy Schmidt]

...a 372 is not a 370, and regardless of what a 370's compatibility is
with mandrake the 372 has it's own issue apparently..it appears
9.0b1 will do so far what 8.2 wouldn't, and that is detect drives on
hpt372 w/o kernel-panic.but, it's not allowing setting up partitions
because it's not allowing writes to drives during install.hopefully
this can be fixed..

[Cooker] Highpoint hpt 372/374 ata133/raid controller status with 9.0b1???

[Andy Schmidt]

Hello, this is my firts message to cooker, i have the Highpoint hpt 372
ata133/raid controller integrated into my Abit mobo. Currently i have
been running Mandrake 8.2, but it will kernel panic during initial
hardware detection if this controller
is enabled in BIOS.so i have taken the hdd's off of it and shut it
off in BIOS and have been running off the regular IDE channels.

I recently tried to install 9.0b1 to investigate the status of hpt372
compatibility since i've read 2.4.19 has fixed this issue.

With drives connected to hpt372 controller i proceed with install of
cdrom. Intial hardware detection seems to proceed ok, all drives
recognized properlyno kernel panic yay! Proceed through initial
install to 'security level selection' screen, complete it, ready for
'partition screen'.

1) with drives on hpt372 the install hangs for 2-3 minutes prior to
partition tablle section coming up.

2) once screen comes up, only the master drives on each channel present
in tabs, i had one slave drive too but it 'no shows'.

3)** most importantly***  old partitons show correectly but i am
unable to write new partition table to drive, no matter what i try

...so i can't proceed with install no matter what i try. All hardware is
ok and properly  configured. If i move drives to IDE channels, i can
install..even with hpt372 enabled in bios.all above troubles
dissappear.

So, it appears there is some minor gltich that is preventing writing to
drives on hpt372 controller.

Note, i am not attempting to use raid functions, i just want to use
these two extra drive connectors found on the hpt372 as normal
independent hdd's.

So, what is the status of hpt 372/374 support in 9.0, is it being
addressed??

Thx for any help.

Andy.