Recently I decided to upgrade and rebuild one of my linux boxes.
Originally it was running off of a pair of 2 GB EIDE drives. One of the
upgrades I decided on was to add a Promise Ultra33 card and replace the
original drives with Ultra33 drives. So I installed the card, and drives
in the following configuration:
cdrom /dev/hda ide0 (onboard EIDE interface)
disk1 /dev/hde ide2 (Channel 1 of Promise card)
disk2 /dev/hdg ide3 (Channel 2 of Promise card)
disk3 /dev/sda SCSI id 0.
Next I dropped the cd in the drive and proceeded to go through the
installation process with no problems. I then rebooted. LILO dies with
at the LI prompt. I insert the boot disk created at installation time
and the machine boots correctly. So I start digging around on the
available HowTos. I find on regarding this card but it seems to be based
more on the 2.0.X kernels than the later versions. Everything I find
suggests that this card should work correctly with a 2.2.X kernel.
So maybe it is not the card. From what I know of LILO stalling at LI
indicates a problem with the drive geometry. I found only one thing
that may be the problem.
[badkarma hde]# pwd
/proc/ide/ide2/hde
[badkarma hde]# cat geometry
physical 4960/16/63
logical 620/128/63
[badkarma hde]#
Does this mean that the physical geometry of the drive is not matching
what the promise card is reporting? Has anybody worked with one of these
cards before? Is there a way to change the settings the card is
reporting?
Thanks
Garl
