IDE/hard hangs on boot

Ian Stirling (root@mauve.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:52:50 +0100 (BST)

I have been having occasional problems when reconfiguring my system,
involving hard hangs with 2.0.33, or 2.1.98, at the
stage where it looks at the partition tables.
I had assumed that it was because I'd typo'd and ended up with a
filesystem on the raw device, not a partition, but this seems not to be
the case (repartitioned properly)
Specifics: Intel TX motherboard, quantum bigfoot 12G, and 8G.
It seems to crash if there is a slave drive, mentioned in the bios, but
be fine if the drive is not mentioned. (primary or secondary interface)

I also got a "freeing 32K of unallocated memory" or similar from 2.1.98
just after the stage where it would have crashed if the drive was enabled
in the bios.
Does this sound like a known bug?
I may have got some of this slightly confused, as I needed the system
up urgently, and wasn't looking at root causes.
If it's not known, I can do some more investigating.

Also, is IDE really this bad?
hdparm -t /dev/hda running at the same time as hdparm -t /dev/hdc
gives speeds of 6Mb/sec on both drives, whereas either drive alone
shows 10.7Mb/sec.
I can understand why this might be the case if the drives were on the same
interfaces, but not different ones.

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