> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: zondag 16 november 2003 21:56 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: [cobalt-developers] 300 GB Maxtor HDD in Qube 3 > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to get a 300 GB Maxtor HD working in a Qube 3. The > HD has already been lowlevel formated (which took some days). > The kernel freezes in the boot process when it is trying to > detect the partitions on the drive (please see below > screenshot). The system has cmos romrev 2.9.36 and the kernel > is 2.4.19C7_III. > > Can someone give me hint on how to change the kernel > commandline so I can try to change the parameters for hdc > (like nodma, fixed geometry)? > > There seems to be no lilo on the machine I don't have a clue > how to tell the kernel what to do but the machine has to have > the setting somewhere as you can go: [root 2.4]# cat > /proc/cmdline console=ttyS0,115200 ip=off and there are some > parameters. > > Any other experience in getting large disk up and running in > Qube 3 are much appreciated too. > > Thanks, > Daniel > > ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<--- > This is the output of the kernel while booting: > > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override > with idebus=xx > ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 > ALI15X3: chipset revision 193 > ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14 > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > hda: ST320410A, SN=5FG0DFB7, FWREV=3.34, ATA DISK drive > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override > with idebus=xx > hdc: Maxtor 5A300J0, SN=A80ZMLQE, FWREV=RAMB1TV0Maxtor > 5A300J0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, > CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33) > hdc: 585940320 sectors (300001 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=36473/255/63, > UDMA(33) > Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3 hda4 > hdc: >
Anything bigger then 120GB will be recognized, but can not be used. You will have to scale down to 120GB for IDE, or use SCSI drives, Bob. _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
