On Friday 31 January 2003 20:20, civileme wrote:
> On Friday 31 January 2003 02:47 am, Gil Katz wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:45, Gil Katz wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I bought a new WD 80GB disk and mount it with HardDrake and made one
> > > partition but when i look in KDiskFree i see that i got only 25 GB.
> > > What is wrong?
> > > Gil
> >
> > I'll refine the problem
> > DiskDrake see the disk as is (74 GB)
> > but KDiskFree see only 2.5 HD
> > Gil
>
> Well WD is not a brand to buy since trhey OFFICIALLY support only Solaris
> and Windows, and besides they are hardware deficient on what it takes to do
> udma3 or higher and dangerous to use for your data at higher rates. Others
> can supply the info and links, but I will give you one...
>
> http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20000214_54.html#2
>
> Basically WD disks are bad juju for linux.
>
> The real problem here may be one of mathematics, though. WD has this
> penchant for producing single-platter disks with one rack of heads each
> side (weigh it on a scale against competitive products and you will find
> the WD disk lighter)
>
> This means that the track number may be overflowing what Kdiskfree has
> available for track numbers with a resulting problem in viewing the disk.
> At one time the linux kernel would carve up big WD drives differently than
> the BIOS would with results that were just fantastic, but no other drives
> had ANY problems. This was true in Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 for certain, but
> was corrected in kernel 2.2.19.
>
> Now, stop trusting kdf and let's see what dmesg says. Post the results and
> we'll see what the kernel says about free space. If there is still a
> problem, most likely the kernel's math will have to be adjusted for the
> most recent WD "cheapness" shortcut and another item will have to be added
> to the kernel's internal blacklist of cantankerous drives requiring special
> handling.
>
> Civileme
This is the dmesg say
Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2
(Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000013ffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000013ffc000 - 0000000013fff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000013fff000 - 0000000014000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
319MB LOWMEM available.
Advanced speculative caching feature not present
On node 0 totalpages: 81916
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 77820 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 quiet devfs=mount
hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 453.179 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 904.39 BogoMIPS
Memory: 321644k/327664k available (1176k kernel code, 5632k reserved, 444k
data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 453.1857 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 100.7078 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1007078, slice: 503539
CPU0<T0:1007072,T1:503520,D:13,S:503539,C:1007078>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0890, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0596] at 00:04.0
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Card 'U.S. Robotics 56K FAX INT'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
devfs: v1.12a (20020514) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe2000000, mapped to 0xd4800000, size 4096k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:03d4
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 30412 bytes).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at port 0x03e8 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 23) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:04.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive
hdb: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI-CD ROM-DRIVE-52MAX, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdd: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 < p5 p6 > p2
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p1
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 51k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:49:04 Sep 20 2002
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0d.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
Adding Swap: 610460k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: CD-RW GCE-8240B Rev: 1.07
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: ATAPI-CD Model: ROM-DRIVE-52MAX Rev: 52JA
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide1(22,65), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ohci1394: $Rev: 530 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0c.0
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[df800000-df800800] Max
Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[00309526b0031864] [Linux OHCI-1394]
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.2
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
00:0d.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xb400. Vers LK1.1.16
IPVS: Connection hash table configured (size=4096, memory=32Kbytes)
IPVS: Each connection entry needs 116 bytes at least
IPVS: ipvs loaded.
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.19-16mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165 tag=$Name:
build-1790 $
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 2037 (vmnet-bridge)
/dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
bridge-eth0: up
bridge-eth0: attached
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 2063 (vmnet-natd)
/dev/vmnet: hub 8 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 2329 (vmnet-netifup)
/dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 2357 (vmnet-netifup)
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 2352 (vmnet-dhcpd)
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 2381 (vmnet-dhcpd)
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
devfs_register(raw1394): could not append to parent, err: -17
raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
video1394: Installed video1394 module
Splash status on console 0 changed to off
udf: registering filesystem
UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:57:udf_get_last_session: XA disk: no, vol_desc_start=0
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1421:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:410:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte sectors)
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:437:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Primary Volume Descriptor found
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:434:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Boot Record found
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:446:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Volume Descriptor Set Terminator
found
UDF-fs: No VRS found
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Gil
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