Re: Weird partititon recocnising problem in 2.6.0-testX

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Sun Nov 09 2003 - 19:01:17 EST


On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:09:40AM +0100, Konstantin Kletschke wrote:

> The suggested printk code is added no but I see no difference:

hda: 9766MB, CHS=1245/255/63
hdb: 130551MB, CHS=16643/255/63
devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.
hda: hda1 hda2
devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.
devfs_mk_bdev: could not append to parent for /disc
hdb: hdb1
devfs_mk_bdev: could not append to parent for /part1

Aha, this "hda: 9766MB, CHS=1245/255/63" looks ancient.
You are using the old hd.c instead of the new ide stuff.

Nobody else does so, so there might easily be something wrong.
So, try to set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y but unset CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE.

Andries

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