Hi everybody,
my name is Andreas Eibach and it's the first time I'm here.
I'm aware of the fact that posting here requires having read ALL FAQs and
available documents before doing that.
I did this, of course.
But since the problem seems brand-new (due to the fact that these huge-sized
HDs are very new), I could, however, find questions and answers on the ML
archives, but still no solution of this recent problem.
Please apologize this being longer than usual posts, but I feel the need to
go into detail very much so that the problem can be fixed soon.
My setup is: (relevant things only)
AMD K6-266 (oc'ed @300)
Motherboard GA-586 SG w/AWARD BIOS 4.51PG
(no updates available anymore from the manufacturer! 586sg BIOS rev. is
1.15)
SDRAM
Maxtor 60 GB hard drive:
- Capacity Limitation Jumper J46 APPLIED (otherwise BIOS does not
recognize the HD at all!)
(note: this lets the HD look like a 32 GB one, causing total confusion
with the kernel)
- EZDrive (aka MaxBlast) APPLIED (as _prescribed_ by original
documentation for older BIOSes)
---Linux SuSE 6.2, Kernels 2.2.10, 2.2.15, 2.4.0 test4 NOT TESTED YET: 2.2.17 (should I give it a try?) Util-Linux 2.9f (from the distribution) (Note: I've got latest 2.10o tarball here now, one of my suspects causing the errors below was Fdisk at first)
Now my outputs: (slightly shortened)
Linux version 2.4.0-test4 (root@janus) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #2 Wed Sep 6 16:38:45 MEST 2000 [...] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdc11 ro single BOOT_IMAGE=bzi_240 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 300681014 Hz processor. [...] CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions stepping 00 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX [...] (pci stuff) [...] (net4 stuff) ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01 SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SiS5591 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio --------------------------------------------^^ hda: Maxtor 96147U8, ATA DISK drive --------------------------------------------^^ hdb: CD-532E-A, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: IBM-DTTA-350840, ATA DISK drive hdd: ST33232A, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 120060864 sectors (61471 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7473/255/63, UDMA(33) [...] (hdc: / hdd: / hdb:) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Partition check: hda:hda: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda: status timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy }
OUCH...
hda: DMA disabled hdb: DMA disabled hda: drive not ready for command
OUCHIE...
ide0: reset: success [EZD] [remap 0->1] [7473/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=71987265, sector=0 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=71987265, sector=0 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=71987265, sector=0 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=71987265, sector=0 ide0: reset: success hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=71987265, sector=0 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=71987265, sector=0 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=71987265, sector=0 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=71987265, sector=0 ide0: reset: success hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=71987265, sector=0 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0d (hda), sector 0
AYEEE .... OH MY GOD...
> hda4 hdc: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hdc3 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 hdc9 hdc10 hdc11 hdc12 > hdd: [PTBL] [781/128/63] hdd3 < hdd5 hdd6 hdd7 hdd8 > [...] [EXT II FS 0.5b, 95/08/09, bs=1024, fs=1024, gc=11, bpg=8192, ipg=4016, mo=160b]
Well this doesn't look _that_ nice... :)
So what did I do?
Since my Maxtor HD contains already 8 Windows partitions and is supposed to "get Linux" on the 3rd third, I deleted everything except those Windows partitions. Then I used MS-DOS FDISK to build two _very big_ new partitions in order to fill the thing up entirely to get rid of these
"Warning: Logical drive chain points to sector without partition table" "Warning: EPBR partition starting at 71987265 is without logical partition" (messages from PartitionInfo while testing HD - Partition Magic 5.0)
Back to Linux: With CFdisk, I DELETED those two partitions again and wanted to start with a, say, 300 MB / root partition.
Same error message again! (read_intr stuff....)
What I need is a kernel patch capable of handling this capacity limiter correctly, because my suspicion is that everything BEHIND 32 GB (like in my case, for 2/3 is used for Windows stuff) doesn't exist for the kernel, so to say, an "Input past end" error.
Odd thing is, though, that the 2.4.0 test-x kernels do report the SIZE of the hard disk all correctly.
Thanks for listening,
Andreas Eibach
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