by I doubt you broke your chip. can you enter the HPT bios screen via the
Control H command? if so, can you then make the HPT bios see any drives? I
don't know what the newest bios is for your board but many people have had
trouble with the 1.21 version of HPT bios. I don't know if there is a way
for you to get to 1.22 HPT bios or not but if you can, try that as well.
Quote:> I suspect I have a broken HPT366 chip or motherboard, but I wanted
> to see if anyone else had similar problems.
> I have an Abit BP-6, dual celeron 466's (not overclocked),
> with the HPT 366 chip on-board. The chip reads,
> HighPoint JAPAN
> HPT366
> 9920 L010
> (incidentally, I noticed on http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt366.htm
> that some chips seem to have newer "lot" numbers).
> And I have three hard drives:
> QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A
> Maxtor 52049U4 (x2)
> I've tried various combinations of the Quantum and the Maxtors
> on the two HPT IDE channels, and in every case, devices on the
> first HPT IDE channel are not recognized by the BIOS, nor by
> Linux 2.3.99pre6 (probably as a consequence of the BIOS not
> initializing them). For example, with the Quatum on the plain
> IDE channel and one Maxtor on each HPT channel, Linux reports
> the following (my comments in []'s),
> HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> [^^^ bad]
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
> [^^^ good]
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: CR-4802TE, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdg: Maxtor 52049U4, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> [ide2 (first HPT channel) not reported!]
> ide3 at 0xb800-0xb807,0xbc02 on irq 11
> hda: 25429824 sectors (13020 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1582/255/63,
> UDMA(33)
> hdg: 40020624 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39703/16/63,
> UDMA(66)
> The second channel works fine, with any of the individual drives,
> or with two drives on the same channel (master/slave). I want
> to take advantage of software RAID-0, and my impression is
> that one-drive-per-channel is they way to go.
> I tried three different UDMA/66 cables (80 wires, blue end on
> the mobo), with no difference.
> I upgraded my flash with BP6_NJ.BIN (1.21 I believe), so I get
> the Blue HPT bios screen, but devices on the first HPT channel
> are still not being detected.
> So my questions are:
> Is there anything I can do to get drives deteced on the first
> HPT channel?
> Am I missing something?
> Do you think my HPT366 is broken?
> Thanks in advance,
> -Jamie