[H-GEN] Large hard-drive troubles.

[Robert Kearey]

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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, fbrand wrote:

> There is also a large Hard Drive HOWTO. Have not looked at it for a while
> but I am sure it is there.

Well, I've checked ide.txt in the kernel source and the Large Hard Drive
HOWTO, and I'm getting a little vexed. According to LHD HOWTO, I shouldn't
have anything to wory about, as I'm not booting off the drive - the IDE
driver should take care of everything. However, linux appears to be
seeing:

geometry     = 22505/247/228, sectors = 25434228

whereas the BIOS reports 16383,16,63 - supposedly what all > 8.4 gig
drives are supposed to do these days.

I'm also seeing this at boot:

Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=193546087,
sector=0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=193546087,
sector=0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=193546087,
sector=0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=193546087,
sector=0
ide0: reset: success
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=193546087,
sector=0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=193546087,
sector=0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=193546087,
sector=0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=193546087,
sector=0
ide0: reset: success
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=193546087,
sector=0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06 (hda), sector 0

Hmmm. I'm not sure if those two partitions mean anything - I'll boot off
the HDD and see what occurs.

> Frank Brand

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Robert Kearey			3365 8527
Network Services		ITS - formerly Prentice Centre
University of Queensland	r.kearey at its.uq.edu.au



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