I tried the 2.6.28-4.10 kernel from Jaunty (linux-image-2.6.28-4-server_2.6.28-4.10_i386.deb) and it "works" in the sense that it correctly detects the hpt302n card, using the pata_hpt37x driver. This ran for a few minutes before the driver hitting an error, and mdadm failing the drive. I didn't test 2.6.28 for long, but 2.6.28 changed some things with apparmor that broke mysql with my particular setup.
I would stay far away from the lib_ata driver on this hardware, it appears not very stable. I've run the old ide driver for a couple of years and it's been solid. The old ide driver is still in the linux-image-386: 2.6.25-2-386 (linux- image-2.6.25-2-386_2.6.25-2.3_i386.deb). kernel: [ 1069.703020] ata5.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 kernel: [ 1069.709529] ata5.01: BMDMA stat 0x4 kernel: [ 1069.713065] ata5.01: cmd c8/00:08:98:c8:fa/00:00:00:00:00/f7 tag 0 dma 4096 in kernel: [ 1069.713066] res 00/00:00:9f:c8:fa/00:00:00:00:00/f7 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) kernel: [ 1069.728422] ata5: soft resetting link kernel: [ 1069.880193] ata5.01: NODEV after polling detection kernel: [ 1069.880195] ata5.01: revalidation failed (errno=-2) kernel: [ 1074.880135] ata5: soft resetting link kernel: [ 1075.040194] ata5.01: NODEV after polling detection kernel: [ 1075.040195] ata5.01: revalidation failed (errno=-2) kernel: [ 1080.040129] ata5: soft resetting link kernel: [ 1080.200190] ata5.01: NODEV after polling detection kernel: [ 1080.200191] ata5.01: revalidation failed (errno=-2) kernel: [ 1080.205111] ata5.01: disabled kernel: [ 1080.205114] ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x40) kernel: [ 1080.205115] ata5.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) kernel: [ 1085.200133] ata5: soft resetting link kernel: [ 1085.497946] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 kernel: [ 1085.497964] ata5: EH complete kernel: [ 1085.497986] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK kernel: [ 1085.497991] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 133875864 kernel: [ 1085.503803] raid1: sdb: rescheduling sector 133875864 kernel: [ 1085.503885] sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors: (80.0 GB/74.5 GiB) kernel: [ 1085.522248] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK kernel: [ 1085.522253] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 156301312 kernel: [ 1085.528105] sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off kernel: [ 1085.528107] sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 kernel: [ 1085.528221] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 156301312 kernel: [ 1085.534012] md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0 kernel: [ 1085.534015] raid1: Disk failure on sdb, disabling device. kernel: [ 1085.534015] raid1: Operation continuing on 1 devices. kernel: [ 1085.554910] sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA -- No drivers available for hpt302n PCI card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301840 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs