Question about HD-Controller

[Poochie]

Hello everyone,

I'm still rather new with Linux.

My computer has 2 IDE connectors on the mainboard.
On IDE1, there is
/dev/hda used for gentoo
/dev/hdb used for data

On IDE2, two DVD-(-R) ROM drives are connected.
These drives are all recognized and are working so far.

However, I also use an IDE-controller card and a 160GB HD connected to it, with a Win2000 partition and several data partitions.
The controller is a HighPoint Rocket 133SB with a Bios onthe card.

Knoppix is recognising these partitions under /dev/hdg without any problems.

When I try other Linux distributions however, they won't recognize that HD. I would like to enable that drive in gentoo.

So while in Knoppix, I tried" lsmod" and this is what I received:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ppp_deflate             2936   0 (autoclean)
zlib_deflate           17336   0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
bsd_comp                3992   0 (autoclean)
ppp_async               7232   1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic            22816   3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc                    4560   0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
reiserfs              169616   1 (autoclean)
ntfs                   50944   1 (autoclean)
autofs4                 8756   1 (autoclean)
af_packet              13544   2 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           2844   3 (autoclean)
nls_cp437               4348   2 (autoclean)
agpgart                42660   0 (unused)
emu10k1                61064   1
sound                  55276   0 [emu10k1]
ac97_codec             11916   0 [emu10k1]
soundcore               3428   7 [emu10k1 sound]
dmfe                   11905   1
crc32                   2816   0 [dmfe]
emu10k1-gp              1224   0 (unused)
gameport                1388   0 [emu10k1-gp]
parport_pc             24840   0
parport                22496   0 [parport_pc]
serial                 52100   0 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core            39840   0
apm                     9768   2
rtc                     7036   0 (autoclean)
cloop                   8740   2
ieee1394              183076   0
usb-storage            61696   0 (unused)
usb-ohci               17896   0 (unused)
usb-uhci               21644   0 (unused)
usbcore                57600   1 [usb-storage usb-ohci usb-uhci]
ataraid                 6180   0
ide-cd                 28512   0
ide-scsi                8816   1

My guess that "ide-scsi" is the thing I'm looking for. How do I find out more about this, so that I can enable it in other distributions?

I know that this isn't the gentoo message board, but I thought that maybe you could help me, because Knoppix works with the drive.

[Poochie]

Here's the gentoo-version of lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
fglrx                 226556  -
bash-2.05b$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
fglrx                 226556  -
snd_pcm_oss            48008  -
snd_mixer_oss          17256  -
snd_seq_midi            6176  -
snd_emu10k1_synth       6632  -
snd_emux_synth         34728  -
snd_seq_virmidi         5448  -
snd_seq_midi_emul       6600  -
snd_seq_oss            31424  -
snd_seq_midi_event      5992  -
snd_seq                49968  -
snd_emu10k1            91400  -
snd_rawmidi            19844  -
snd_pcm                84164  -
snd_timer              20620  -
snd_seq_device          6160  -
snd_ac97_codec         68272  -
snd_page_alloc          7216  -
snd_util_mem            3112  -
snd_hwdep               6884  -
snd                    46308  -
soundcore               6880  -

I'd really appreciate any suggestions.

Have a happy New Year!

[UnderScore]

According to the HighPoint website, the Rocket 133SB uses the HPT302 chipset http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/r133sb.htm. I searched the kernel source tree and found the appropriate driver for you.

james@0[k]# grep -R -i -n HPT302 linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/pci/*
linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:125:              case PCI_DEVICE_ID_TTI_HPT302:
linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:126:                      class_rev = PCI_DEVICE_ID_TTI_HPT302; break;
linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:153:      } else if (hpt_minimum_revision(dev, 6)) {      /* HPT302 */
linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:154:              mode = (HPT302_ALLOW_ATA133_6) ? 4 : 3;
linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:377:              hpt302_tune_chipset(drive, speed);
linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:1297:     { PCI_VENDOR_ID_TTI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_TTI_HPT302, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 2},
linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.h:405:#define HPT302_ALLOW_ATA133_6 0linux-2.6.10/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.h:445:              .name           = "HPT302",

james@0[k]# grep -R -i -n HPT302 linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/*
linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:197:              case PCI_DEVICE_ID_TTI_HPT302:
linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:198:                      class_rev = PCI_DEVICE_ID_TTI_HPT302; break;
linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:225:      } else if (hpt_minimum_revision(dev, 6)) {      /* HPT302 */
linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:226:              mode = (HPT302_ALLOW_ATA133_6) ? 4 : 3;
linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:452:              hpt302_tune_chipset(drive, speed);
linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:1446:     { PCI_VENDOR_ID_TTI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_TTI_HPT302, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 2},
linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.h:407:#define HPT302_ALLOW_ATA133_6 0
linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.h:475:              .device         = PCI_DEVICE_ID_TTI_HPT302,
linux-2.4.28/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.h:476:              .name           = "HPT302",

This means that the hpt366 driver will work in both the 2.4 & the 2.6 kernels. You should probably compile the hpt366 driver not as a loadable module but instead into the kernel itself.
I hope this helps.
James

[Poochie]

Thanks!

I will try that out ASAP!