Hi, I'm trying to install a new maxtor 80gig drive in my umax j700 with a
turbomax card runnning mandrake 8.0, but i'm having some problems that i
can't figure out. was hoping somewhere here might have some ideas.
first i tried diskdrake, but i got an "illegal division by zero" error
whenever i tried to format that drive. so i switched to fdisk and besides
the fact that it mentioned something about 9964 cylinders instead of 4096,
everything seemed to work. set one primary partition and that was it.
formatted with mke2fs and everything seemed fine (although i wonder how
necessary it is to reserve 5% of the disk space for the superuser. on an
80GB drive, this is a big chunk?).
but disk performance seemed fairly slow, so i ran hdparm to see what the
settings on the disk where and this is what i get:
[]# hdparm /dev/hdg
/dev/hdg1:
multcount = 0 (off)
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
HDIO_GETGEO_BIG failed: Input/output error
[]# hdparm -i /dev/hdg
/dev/hdg:
Model=Maxtor 4W080H6, FwRev=AAH41310, SerialNo-W6043SXC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSec=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=160086528
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255)
Drive Supports: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0 : ATA-1 ATA-2
ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 ATA-6
i'm not quite sure why it can't get the geometry of the drive. when i run
this on the other drive attached to the turbomax card, i have the same
problem. trying to run it on the scsi disk is even worse. so i'm wondering
if there's something wrong with hdparm or what?
also, now when i run diskdrake just to check out the drive, it says that i
have two paritions, one 530 GB and one 1TB. which is obviously not right.
this is the partition table from fdisk
Disk /dev/hdg: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdg1 1 9964 80035798+ 83 Linux
like i said, the drive seems to be working okay, just slow. but all this
weird info kinda worries me. should i just ignore it all?
thanks
-chris
