Re: Status of HPT372A driver?

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Mon Jul 17 2006 - 13:22:42 EST


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...

WBR, Sergei
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