Re: IBM Deskstar IDE 25gb not working.

Magnus Stenman (stone@hkust.se)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:21:46 +0200

Magnus Näslund(b) wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I have an IBM deskstar IDE 25gb HD.
> I get nothing but trouble when trying to install it.
> I should report in hdparm (CHS) 16383,16,63 but i only get
> 4096,16,63 ~= 2gb. When i force the 16383,16,63 setup (which
> the label states) i get

I've got a 20.3 Gb Deskstar (16383/16/63), and it works just fine.
You sure you did not enable the "2 gb clip" strapping on the drive?

>
> Sep 8 19:25:58 ey kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd), sector
> 4129228
> Sep 8 19:25:58 ey kernel: hdd: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Sep 8 19:25:58 ey kernel: hdd: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> when i format the drive with mke2fs -c /dev/hdd.
> The largedisk howto states that it has to report 16383,16,63 for
> the kernel to recognize that it's bigger than the 8gb BIOS limit...
>
> When i give the geometry as bootparam it still doesn't work.
>
> What to do?
>
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