On Sun, 21 May 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:01:03PM +0200, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
>
> > I noticed that when setting CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD=y 2.3.99pre9-2 kernel
> > (and probably some earliers) does not compile:
>
> Yes - if I am not mistaken Andre has already corrected that.
>
> > During start:
> >
> > hda: 0MB, CHS=1108/255/63
> > ^^^^^
> > Partition check:
> > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
> > ...
> >
> > and kernel cannot mount root fs on hda3.
>
> Yes. That is a bug introduced in 2.3.40 by Al Viro's
> "grok_partitions" patch, if I am not mistaken.
>
> Patch (on 2.3.99p8):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> --- hd.c~ Sun Mar 26 13:06:39 2000
> +++ hd.c Sun May 21 01:19:35 2000
> @@ -778,6 +778,8 @@
> #endif
>
> for (drive=0 ; drive < NR_HD ; drive++) {
> + hd[drive<<6].nr_sects = hd_info[drive].head *
> + hd_info[drive].sect * hd_info[drive].cyl;
That is what I was looking for, but it truncates drives to 8.4GB still
> printk ("hd%c: %ldMB, CHS=%d/%d/%d\n", drive+'a',
> hd[drive<<6].nr_sects / 2048, hd_info[drive].cyl,
> hd_info[drive].head, hd_info[drive].sect);
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Any suggestions how should it be fixed ?
>
> See above. Please complain if this doesnt fix it.
>
> > Or is the "old disk-only driver" hd.c obsolete and to be dropped ?
>
> The fact that you are the first to complain is an indication
> that not many kernel developers use this old hd.c.
> But it should remain functional.
>
> Andries
>
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue May 23 2000 - 21:00:19 EST