I recently tried to install gentoo linux on a system with the Iwill XP333-R motherboard with the Highpoint HPT372 chipset. Upon accessing the harddrives, I recieved continual errors about DMA and so forth. I don't have the error in front of me now, however it appears that there have been issues for quite some time. I just looked into -ac patches and saw a fix for HPT366 which appears to have resolved something having to do with DMA and the HPT370, and I think, perhaps, this may have something to do with the HPT372... I cannot use Gentoo linux until there is a kernel that has support for this chipset (plus I need support for the ALi MAGiK 1 M1647 (C- version) as well for this motherboard, as I saw some errors I believe before in recognition of the ide controller on board, besides the hpt372). If patches could be integrated and a new iso image placed on the download site, it would very much help all of use Iwill XP333-R users out here.
2.4.18-pre3-mjc3 contains Andre Hedricks IDE patches, also available at linux-ide.org. See if this helps :)
I have an HPT370 and it works fine for me. I will take a look at this fix though, thanks.
Hi, I just tried the newest iso (the large one with the packages on it) and I still have no luck with my HPT372. My HPT370 used to work fine, but the 372 will not function properly. I get the same error with gentoo as with Mandrake 8.2 betas. I am unable to get the newer 2.4.18 patches because I don't have another linux box to compile on, so I'm absolutely unable to use gentoo until I find a kernel that will recognize this. I will post my dmesg output below, as I get some very strange output with DMA, etc. I don't even get the right strings for my ide controller (primary and secondary) at kernel initialization. This is a weird problem that I've not seen the patch for yet. I would love to give gentoo a spin, but for now only freebsd 4.5 will work (as 4.4 would not even work with the hpt372 as it changed some from the hpt370) If you need any more information, please let me know, I'll be happy to collect it. (whenever I try to access my raid0 array I start getting the errors that start with: hdg: dma_intr: status=0xff { Busy } hdg: DMA disabled ...) Here's dmesg output: Linux version 2.4.17-r5 (root@inventor.gentoo.org) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 SMP Fri Feb 15 20:37:25 Local time zone must be set-- see zic manual page 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 131056 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 126960 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Kernel command line: devfs=nomount vga=normal load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=22000 initrd=rescue.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw BOOT_IMAGE=kernel pci=biosirq Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1393.149 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2778.72 BogoMIPS Memory: 505968k/524224k available (1696k kernel code, 17868k reserved, 326k data, 216k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000, vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000, vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping 04 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.23 usecs. SMP motherboard not detected. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 1393.1836 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 265.3683 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 2653683, slice: 1326841 CPU0<T0:2653680,T1:1326832,D:7,S:1326841,C:2653683> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3b0, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router default [10b9/1647] at 00:00.0 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.7 (20011216) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 SGI XFS with ACLs, EAs, DMAPI, realtime, quota, no debug enabled pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 976 slots per queue, batch=244 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 22000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0. ALI15X3: chipset revision 196 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
Hi, I just tried the newest iso (the large one with the packages on it) and I still have no luck with my HPT372. My HPT370 used to work fine, but the 372 will not function properly. I get the same error with gentoo as with Mandrake 8.2 betas. I am unable to get the newer 2.4.18 patches because I don't have another linux box to compile on, so I'm absolutely unable to use gentoo until I find a kernel that will recognize this. I will post my dmesg output below, as I get some very strange output with DMA, etc. I don't even get the right strings for my ide controller (primary and secondary) at kernel initialization. This is a weird problem that I've not seen the patch for yet. I would love to give gentoo a spin, but for now only freebsd 4.5 will work (as 4.4 would not even work with the hpt372 as it changed some from the hpt370) If you need any more information, please let me know, I'll be happy to collect it. (whenever I try to access my raid0 array I start getting the errors that start with: hdg: dma_intr: status=0xff { Busy } hdg: DMA disabled ...) Here's dmesg output: Linux version 2.4.17-r5 (root@inventor.gentoo.org) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 SMP Fri Feb 15 20:37:25 Local time zone must be set-- see zic manual page 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 131056 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 126960 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Kernel command line: devfs=nomount vga=normal load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=22000 initrd=rescue.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw BOOT_IMAGE=kernel pci=biosirq Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1393.149 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2778.72 BogoMIPS Memory: 505968k/524224k available (1696k kernel code, 17868k reserved, 326k data, 216k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000, vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000, vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping 04 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.23 usecs. SMP motherboard not detected. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 1393.1836 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 265.3683 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 2653683, slice: 1326841 CPU0<T0:2653680,T1:1326832,D:7,S:1326841,C:2653683> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3b0, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router default [10b9/1647] at 00:00.0 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.7 (20011216) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 SGI XFS with ACLs, EAs, DMAPI, realtime, quota, no debug enabled pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 976 slots per queue, batch=244 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 22000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0. ALI15X3: chipset revision 196 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) ëwfÒuJfSfÒuAF,Áè=: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70 ëwfÒuJfSfÒuAF,Áè=: chipset revision 5 ëwfÒuJfSfÒuAF,Áè=: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio hda: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hde: WDC WD200BB-53AUA1, ATA DISK drive hdg: WDC WD200BB-53AUA1, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 15 ide3 at 0xe000-0xe007,0xe402 on irq 15 hde: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100) hdg: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [2434/255/63] p1 p2 < > /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0: unknown partition table usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.268 $ time 17:20:47 Feb 15 2002 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: v1.268:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0804000, IRQ 5 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 7028k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001) eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xd400, 00:20:78:03:E9:7F, IRQ 11. ataraid/d0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 > Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01 Drive 0 is 19092 Mb Drive 1 is 19092 Mb Raid array consists of 2 drives. hdg: dma_intr: status=0xff { Busy } hdg: DMA disabled ide3: reset timed-out, status=0xff hdg: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy } hdg: drive not ready for command ide3: reset timed-out, status=0xff end_request: I/O error, dev 22:00 (hdg), sector 25712012 end_request: I/O error, dev 22:00 (hdg), sector 25712014 end_request: I/O error, dev 22:00 (hdg), sector 25712016 inserting floppy driver for 2.4.17-r5 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
Here is a fix for the problem with the HPT372 from ata that should work: ide-pci.c: (find the hpt_fix_up and look for the switch statement) static void __init hpt366_device_order_fixup (struct pci_dev *dev, ide_pci_device_t *d) { struct pci_dev *dev2 = NULL, *findev; ide_pci_device_t *d2; unsigned char pin1 = 0, pin2 = 0; unsigned int class_rev; - char *chipset_names[] = {"HPT366", "HPT366", "HPT368", "HPT370", "HPT370A"}; + char *chipset_names[] = {"HPT366", "HPT366", "HPT368", "HPT370", "HPT370A", "HPT372"}; if (PCI_FUNC(dev->devfn) & 1) return; @@ -839,6 +963,7 @@ strcpy(d->name, chipset_names[class_rev]); switch(class_rev) { + case 5: case 4: case 3: printk("%s: IDE controller on PCI bus %02x dev % 02x\n", d->name, dev->bus->number, dev->devfn);
Hey, interestingly it appears that patch-2.4.19-pre2-ac3 has the HPT372 patch previously posted in it now. Glad to see it "officially" added! http://www.kernel.org/diff/diffview.cgi?css=%2Fdiff%2Fdiff.css;file=%2Fpub% 2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fpeople%2Falan%2Flinux-2.4%2F2.4.19%2Fpatch-2.4.19-pre2- ac3.gz;z=116 Search for HPT372 to see it.
*** Bug 1275 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hey, I apologize, but this bug is not closed. I closed it before it was completely resolved, thinking that ata had the entire solution. Even after this patch it is still giving the DMA issues reported previously. So this issue is not closed and I do not have hopes of it being closed soon due to the lack of response from the developers for these modules.
Jack Kolesar at www.amdpower.com just reviewed a mobo with hpt372 using gentoo. He was able to get the controller to be reliable by turning off dma with hdparm. It was really slow. From the review: <blockquote> Using HDParm, I was able to get the drives to a stable condition by turning off DMA, setting UmaskIRQ to 0, and setting the drive to 32 bit mode. I did this by issuing "hdparm -c1d0u0m16 /dev/hde /dev/hdg". This made the RAIDed drives workable and stable for an installation. </blockquote> The informative page is: http://www.amdpower.com/sections.php4?op=viewarticle&artid=72
Ata has explained that he has fixed some thing which should be in the most recent ac patches for kernel 2.4.19. I'm going to give it a shot, but ata also said there are AT LEAST three different versions of the HPT372, which presents a problem. He may need some assistance from some of us with different versions so that he can find a universal solution. Here's his recent e-mail to me from 24 March 2002: --- I have the HPT374 completed less the auto-dma downgrade sync. HPT372 comes in at least three flavors. So until I can poke each or find one of each for a poor soul the test. I do not feel that confidendt; however ac5/6 should have it in there now. ---
Pretty old bug. I'm pretty sure that these chipsets work but these things are best solved upstream as it is...
