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  From: Andrew Hill <andrew@fornax.net>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:59:39 +1030

Red Hat and ATA/66 Drives

Making my first move to Linux on my home computer, and having a bit of
trouble with the hard drives. Red Hat 6.0 is quite happily set up on my
EIDE drive, as /dev/hda, but when I try and have a look at /dev/hdb, a new
ATA/66 drive, with fdisk /dev/hdb, I get the following:

hdb: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity.
ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 0,  key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
hdb: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity.
ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 0,  key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
hdb: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity.

So, I tried passing the kernel at boot time the argument:

hdb=16383,16,63

being the cyls,heads,sects of the drive. No luck, same error. Ditto if I
set up those arguments in LILO, and if I set up a disk spec. in LILO.

Finally, I tried recompiling the kernel without IDE floppy support, and
this time, fdisk /dev/hdb give me a kernel panic!

Any ideas what's going on? Does the kernel need ATA/66 support? All the
hard drive info says that the drive is fully backwards compatible with
normal IDE drives....

Cheers,

--
Andrew Hill, B.Sc.             | "The key to productivity is to
                               | rotate your avoidance techniques."
andrew@fornax.net              |
http://www.fornax.net/~andrew/ |        -- Too Much Coffee Man


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