Re: Problems with 2.6.10

[Bill Davidsen]

Fryderyk Mazurek wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm sorry, but acpi=routeirq doesn't work. But to my head came other
> thing. I noticed that I on 2.6.9 (which correct works) I have this
> part of dmesg:

Not surprised, that should be pci=routeirq, as in the original post. Do 
you have preempt on?
> hdb: Host Protected Area detected.
> 	current capacity is 66055248 sectors (33820 MB)
> 	native  capacity is 78165360 sectors (40020 MB)
> hdb: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65531/16/63,
> UDMA(33)
>
> and on 2.6.10 I have:
>
> hdb: Host Protected Area detected.
> 	current capacity is 66055248 sectors (33820 MB)
> 	native  capacity is 78165360 sectors (40020 MB)
> hdb: Host Protected Area disabled.
> hdb: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
> UDMA(33)
>
> How see, first is 32GB (33820 MB), and second is 40GB (40020MB).
> Correct value should be 32GB, in spite that my disk is 40GB. I want
> to say, that I have a little old BIOS and my BIOS detect only 32GB,
> therefore I have limited size of my disk. And maybe kernel 2.6.10
> influence on my BIOS and force to detect 40GB, which is not
> operable, because my BIOS is too old. I think that maybe to fix it I
> should force my kernel to detect only 32GB, how on kernel 2.6.9.
> Maybe this is a BUG of new kernel?
>
> Fryderyk.
>
> ---- Wiadomość Oryginalna ----
> Od: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
> Do: Fryderyk Mazurek <dedyk@xxxxxx>
> Kopia do: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Data: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:14:02 -0500
> Temat: Re: Problems with 2.6.10
>
>
> > Fryderyk Mazurek wrote:
> >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > My kernel 2.6.10 I compiled two times. First with ACPI and second
> > > fully without ACPI. And the same situation.
> > > For me this situation is strange, because usually reset should help,
> > > but not this time. I thought that maybe my BIOS is too old. But with
> > > 2.6.9 works. Therefore I don't know. Now I use 2.6.9.
> > >
> > > Fryderyk.
> > >
> > > ---- Wiadomość Oryginalna ----
> > > Od: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Do: Fryderyk Mazurek <dedyk@xxxxxx>
> > > Kopia do: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Data: 27 Dec 2004 21:44:11 -0500
> > > Temat: Re: Problems with 2.6.10
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 12:11, Fryderyk Mazurek wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > problem starts when I do reboot. On boot screen my bios can't
>
> detect
>
> > > > > my disk. Bios stops and nothing.
> > > >
> > > > Does reboot work if the initial boot is with acpi=off?
> >
> > With that system, perhaps acpi=ht would be better if he uses the
>
> HT. And 
>
> > pci=routeirq may help as well, although it told me it was disabling 
> > IRQ18 and didn't!


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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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