[oclug] [OT] Fwd: RE: HPT370a bios & Linux

[b stephen harding]

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This might be of interest to this of you that are using the HighPoint Raid 
controller HPT370a with your linux distro.

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Subject: RE: HPT370a bios & Linux
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:24:22 -0700
From: "EPoX Technical Support (47)" <support at epox.com>
To: 'bruce harding' <dk983 at freenet.carleton.ca>

Bruce

Sorry for the delay. Recently we added a BETA BIOS that has the latest
Highpoint BIOS for linux users.
http://www.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8K7Aplus&lang=1
(Click on BIOS)


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From: bruce harding [mailto:dk983 at ncf.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:44 PM
To: support at epox.com
Subject: HPT370a bios & Linux


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      Name: bruce harding
    E-mail: dk983 at ncf.ca
 Submitted: 5/28/2002 18:43 PST
IP address: 24.112.218.198
HTTP Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux)

     Model: EP-8K7A+
       REV: 1.0
  Serial #: 010628000117
    Vendor: Elco
 Purchased: 07-15-2001
      Bios: 03-04-2002
       CPU: AMD 1.333
       RAM: 512MB
       VGA: ATI 8500
     Drive: (not provided)
       O/S: Unix / Linux
     Other: (not provided)

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Hi,

I need some help. I both your 8K7A+ motherboard so I could use it to run
an inexpensive raid system for my SuSE 7.3 Pro Linux system.  As you can
see from the email from High Point below they say I must get my bios
upgrade from you, however according to the High Point web site the
version of the bios I need to run my SuSE 7.3 Pro in a raid
configuration is 2.2.

So I was wondering if the verison number listed with the latest bios for
the HPT370a is the same as those used by High Point?  If not are you
going to release another update in the future that will provide a 2.2
bios?

Thanks for your help in this matter.

Bruce

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Hello,

We only provide BIOS updates for PCI cards.
The EPoX motherboard BIOS update also updates the controller's BIOS (it
cannot be updated separately).

HighPoint Technologies

At 07:52 PM 5/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I would like to upgrade my HPT372A controller so that I may use the
>raid option on my SuSE 7.3 Pro Linux box(dual boots WinXP).  However it
>
>gives me this message "no loadable eprom found", I find this odd cause
>I have sucessfully upgrade this bios before.  The present version is
>2.0.0907.  This is an onboard chip on an Epox 8K7A+ motherboard.  If
>you can help me that would be really great.
>
>By the way I tried both the XP bios package and the SuSE 7.3 packaged
>bios
>and
>neither worked.

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bruce
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