Re: [expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?
Strange, is the drve the only drive in your machine? Just curious. I just installed a 250 Gig drive in my wife's machine. Windows ME was unable to correctly partition the drive. I installed ML9.0 on the system Sliced the drive into 4 partitions via Mandrake and placed ML in partition 2. Then formatted other partitions as Windows partitions. Funny (as in ROFL) thing is that Windows ME is behaving itself and is unable to detect any difference in the Linux formatted partitions than if it had formatted them itself. Yes, it is dual boot. Mandrake development team - give yourself a pat on the back! You deserve it! On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:00 pm, Wolf N. Paul wrote: I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk working on my Mdk 9.0 system. When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk was virginal from the store, and now that I have created a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. If I append hdh=noprobe to the boot prompt, I can boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the drive just before the partition check, like so: hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe which corresponds to an example in the kernel source Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. Any hints? Any ideas? Regards, Wolf N. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk working on my Mdk 9.0 system. When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk was virginal from the store, and now that I have created a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. If I append hdh=noprobe to the boot prompt, I can boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the drive just before the partition check, like so: hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe which corresponds to an example in the kernel source Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. Any hints? Any ideas? I have a Maxtor 160GB drive attached to a cheap CMD ATA/133 controller card and havent had any issues with it at all (mdk 9.0) I do have these lines in the global options of my lilo.conf though: disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdg bios=0x82 HTH, Mark. - -- Mark Watts Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key available on request. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ULdSBn4EFUVUIO0RAmj5AJ9+TmPTkGdf4P8xSgugnKNLcwkAkACgnzHc +FK6PeJGB1cMfdeKmZWb4+I= =qwM2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?
If there is a jumper on the disk to reduce the size, try that (for testing), this might eliminate the possiblity that the drive is faulty. Although it works in win2k, have you done a surface scan there? It really does sound like its the kernel thats the problem though, you could search google and also upgrade your kernel, its over 5 months since mdk9 kernel came out now. JG Wolf N. Paul wrote: I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk working on my Mdk 9.0 system. When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk was virginal from the store, and now that I have created a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. If I append hdh=noprobe to the boot prompt, I can boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the drive just before the partition check, like so: hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe which corresponds to an example in the kernel source Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. Any hints? Any ideas? Regards, Wolf N. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?
Since you have Windows, the first thing I would do is d/l the diagnostic utility (PowerMax) from the Maxtor web site and run that. (Actually, you run the downloaded program that then creates a boot disk...) It may be co-incidence, but I just got the same drive for my father (at least it was a 120G maxtor)--and proceded to fsck around with it for two weeks before realizing that it was a piece of junk... (BTW, beware of target-sale.com--I've been pestering them for an RMA# for a week now and gotten absolutely no response...) HTH, -Jason On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:00 pm, Wolf N. Paul wrote: I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk working on my Mdk 9.0 system. When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk was virginal from the store, and now that I have created a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. If I append hdh=noprobe to the boot prompt, I can boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the drive just before the partition check, like so: hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe which corresponds to an example in the kernel source Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. Any hints? Any ideas? Regards, Wolf N. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- = 'Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha. 'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?
On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:00 pm, Wolf N. Paul wrote: I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk working on my Mdk 9.0 system. When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk was virginal from the store, and now that I have created a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. If I append hdh=noprobe to the boot prompt, I can boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the drive just before the partition check, like so: hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe which corresponds to an example in the kernel source Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. Any hints? Any ideas? Regards, Wolf N. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you used the other install kernels alt0 alt1 alt2? type F1 at the splash screen and then at the boot prompt 'alt0' without the quotes. Also the alt1 and alt2--any may recognize the big disk. The install kernels are seriously stripped so that the image fits on a floppy. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
