pata_hpt drivers are experimental and should be disabled

[John Paul Morrison]

The libata drivers for hpt366 are buggy/experimental: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11328

I tried the 2.6.28 kernel from jaunty on my Intrepid system and this driver detects the hpt366 but it fails with the same DMA problems as the kernel bugid. My software raid mirror failed within minutes of booting. I don't think this driver should be in a release version until it's solid. Also, the intrepid 2.6.27 kernels do not detect the libata hpt366 properly, and load the 37x driver which does not work on the hpt302/302n.

The old IDE hpt366 driver was stable back in feisty - ran it for a year at least without issues.

I think Intrepid/Jaunty should re-enable the old IDE modules for hpt366

[eriksornes (eriksornes)]

I have the same problem. I have a rocketraid 302n-card (i'm not using the hardware-raid). With the hpt366-driver, I had no problems. Since ubuntu 8.10, I have been forced to use the pata_hpt3x2n and it is very buggy. It sometimes does not detect some or all of the ide-drives connected to the controller card. When the pata_hpt3x2n do detect my ide-disks, throughput are constandly at 39K/sec, which in turn makes my computer extremley slow to respond (my OS is on these disks).
I agree totaly with the above poster. Please re-enable old IDE modules for hpt366!

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi John,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid.

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 318908

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[John Paul Morrison (johnpaulmorrison)]

Doesn't help me as I'm running Intrepid. I tried running the latest kernel linux-image-2.6.27-17-server from synaptic, booted and the disks weren't discovered. If there are any other Intrepid kernels to try I'd like to know.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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