Kernel doesn't support HPT RocketRAID 1520

[Ante Karamatić]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.15-23-386

Installation of Dapper (Edgy not tested yet) on HPT RocketRAID 1520 fails. While detecting hardware, system modeprobes hpt34x and hpt366. This results in kernel crash. Other than reboot, there isn't much user can do (terminal on second console is functional, but one can't modprobe or undo crash).

RocketRAID 1520 isn't supported by this two modules (which are for PATA devices), but it is by:
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20+%20Driver/rr1520/Linux/hpt37x2-opensource-v2.1-0717.tgz
driver.

If compiled and modprobed during installation, device works, but only untill old hpt modules are modprobed. After that installer crashes again and destroys RAID pool on RocketRAID. Removing old hpt drivers and depmoding during installation is a workaround for this device. Also, before rebooting to new system, removing of those drivers (old hpt) is needed on installed system and re-creation of initrd too.

This makes upgrading to new kernel difficult.

[Ante Karamatić (ivoks)]

Khm... "Source" contains:

raid.o
raid-x86_64.o

so, I guess this is a no-go?

[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you?
Thanks in advance.

[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!