Re: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard
Jeff, Please tell me if I understand your set-up correctly. You have a system that is utilitizing both the primary and secondary IDE channels built into the motherboard, and they are using the standard IRQs 14 and 15, I/O addresses 1F0 and 170, respectfully. Your Promise Ultra IDE card has given you another pair of channels, using at least one other IRQ (or two) and two other I/O addesses. Does this sum it up correctly? T - Original Message - From: Jeff Gaines [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 5:18 AM Subject: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard I have just built a new PC round the Asus PB533-v mobo, it also has a Promise Ultra card installed with 2 x HD's and 1 x DVD-RAM hanging off the card. Mandrake 8.2 recognises all the devices on the Promise card but none of the devices on the in built IDE controller, i.e. /dev/hda is actually my 'G' drive as far as Windows is concerned but my first drive according to Mandrake. Has anybody come across this? Is there a work round? Regards Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:49:53 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, Please tell me if I understand your set-up correctly. You have a system that is utilitizing both the primary and secondary IDE channels built into the motherboard, and they are using the standard IRQs 14 and 15, I/O addresses 1F0 and 170, respectfully. Your Promise Ultra IDE card has given you another pair of channels, using at least one other IRQ (or two) and two other I/O addesses. Does this sum it up correctly? T - Original Message - From: Jeff Gaines [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 5:18 AM Subject: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard I have just built a new PC round the Asus PB533-v mobo, it also has a Promise Ultra card installed with 2 x HD's and 1 x DVD-RAM hanging off the card. Mandrake 8.2 recognises all the devices on the Promise card but none of the devices on the in built IDE controller, i.e. /dev/hda is actually my 'G' drive as far as Windows is concerned but my first drive according to Mandrake. Has anybody come across this? Is there a work round? Regards T That's spot on. According to Windows the Promise Ultra uses IRQ 20 but that's after Windows has finished moving things around. It's ironic that Windows only recognises the built in IDE until the Promise drivers are installed and with Mandrake only the Promise Ultra is recognised! I booted to a Slackware CD and that recognises all the disks so it's something a bit odd in Mandrake I think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Technoslick Sent: 24 November 2002 14:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard Jeff, Please tell me if I understand your set-up correctly. You have a system that is utilitizing both the primary and secondary IDE channels built into the motherboard, and they are using the standard IRQs 14 and 15, I/O addresses 1F0 and 170, respectfully. Your Promise Ultra IDE card has given you another pair of channels, using at least one other IRQ (or two) and two other I/O addesses. Does this sum it up correctly? T - Original Message - From: Jeff Gaines [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 5:18 AM Subject: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard I have just built a new PC round the Asus PB533-v mobo, it also has a Promise Ultra card installed with 2 x HD's and 1 x DVD-RAM hanging off the card. Mandrake 8.2 recognises all the devices on the Promise card but none of the devices on the in built IDE controller, i.e. /dev/hda is actually my 'G' drive as far as Windows is concerned but my first drive according to Mandrake. Has anybody come across this? Is there a work round? Yes. The distribution Mandrake Linux 9.0 (dolphin) was installed on a PC. The drives were designated by the OS as the following: hda: DVD-ROM drive. (Connected to motherboard IDE controller.) hdc: LS-120 floptical drive. (Connected to motherboard IDE controller.) hde: 80.0 GB HDD. (Connected to PCI IDE controller.) hdg: 15.3 GB HDD. (Connected to PCI IDE controller.) In Windows XP Professional the drives were designated as: Drive A: LS-120 floptical drive. (Connected to motherboard IDE controller.) Drive C: 80.0 GB HDD. (Connected to PCI IDE controller.) Drive D: 15.3 GB HDD. (Connected to PCI IDE controller.) Drive E: DVD-ROM drive. (Connected to motherboard IDE controller.) No solution to the unconventional Mandrake Linux 9.0 drive distribution was found. The details were the following. Subject: Hard Disks Are Not Detected in a Intel System that Has an ATA Controller Card in a Debian 3.0 Installation 3.0.23 Program On a 2 hard-disk drive PC with Windows XP Professional and a Promise Ultra133 TX2 ATA controller card (http://www.promise.com/product/subsys_detail_eng.asp?pid=87fid=3) the Debian Installation System 3.0.23 (built on 15/05/02) that used kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 from the cover DVD of the November edition of Linux Format magazine gave the error message No hard disk drives were detected after the Configure the Keyboard selection was made. When an attempt to access the floppy-disk drive for the ATA controller's device drivers was made, there was an error message that stated that the floppy-disk drive could not be mounted. Mandrake Linux 9.0 CD-ROMs were purchased from The Linux Emporium (http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/). The PC was booted from the first Mandrake binary CD. Both hard-disk drives were detected along with the LS-120 floptical drive which had the installation configuration written to it. The Mandrake Linux distribution was installed. The drives were designated by the OS as follows: hda: DVD-ROM drive. (Connected to motherboard IDE controller.) hdc: LS-120 floptical drive. (Connected to motherboard IDE controller.) hde: 80.0 GB HDD. (Connected to PCI IDE controller.) hdg: 15.3 GB HDD. (Connected to PCI IDE controller.) In the Debian 3.0 boot argument floppy=thinkpad produced the error message: Could not find kernel image: floppy=t.him (sic). Another boot argument bootfloppy0 produced the error message: VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device fd0 on 02:00 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 and then the system hung. The kernel image idepci was not available as a boot argument. Daniel (of Westminster) PS: Additional information. PC System 00 OS: Linux Mandrake 9.0 (dolphin). 01 OS: Windows XP Professional (file system: NTFS). 02 CPU: Intel Pentium III 450 MHz. 03 BIOS: Award. 04 RAM: 384 MB SDRAM. 05 Drive A: Panasonic LK-MF9340-1 (SD120S) EIDE SuperDisk floptical drive. 06 Drive C: is 80.0 GB Seagate Barracuda IV ST380021A 7 200 rpm ATA-100 EIDE drive. 07 Drive D: is 15.3 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 91536U6 7 200 rpm EIDE ATA-66 drive. 08 Drive E: is a Panasonic SR-8584 EIDE 6X DVD-ROM drive. 09 The hard-disk drives are configured as cable select. 10 Motherboard: Asus P3B-F (440BX) with ATA-33 EIDE controller. 11 MODEM
Re: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:55:00 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [very comprehensive reply snipped] Daniel Regards Daniel Many thanks indeed for a very detailed response! It looks like it is a Mandrake problem which is a pity as it's a nice distribution. I think I'll have to look as SUSE, I don't think I can take the pain of a Slackware install :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard
On November 24, 2002 08:55 am, Daniel P Wheeler wrote: severe snippage warning! :-) 06 Drive C: is 80.0 GB Seagate Barracuda IV ST380021A 7 200 rpm ATA-100 EIDE drive. 07 Drive D: is 15.3 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 91536U6 7 200 rpm EIDE ATA-66 drive. 08 Drive E: is a Panasonic SR-8584 EIDE 6X DVD-ROM drive. 09 The hard-disk drives are configured as cable select. 10Motherboard: Asus P3B-F (440BX) with ATA-33 EIDE controller. 11MODEM: 3Com US Robotics Professional Message Modem (external). I'm sure you can see where I isolated a certain line above? There's a reason for that and for the difficulty you're having with this machine: Cable Select SUCKS and won't ever work properly in my experience. Pick a master and slave drive for each channel and run the auto detect or feed the BIOS the *correct information for each drive* and this problem will go away. Just to re-iterate: _cable select is crap and likely to cause grief on disks where GNU/Linux is being installed._ Regards and good luck. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Men still remember the first kiss after women have forgotten the last. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard
Sorry, probably I have little idea about this but I had a similar problem and I would like to say something about: A) I ever thought that hard-drives should be connected in the way to be recognized before cdroms/dvd drives; have you tried to conect your harddrives to be hda and hdb? B) having two cdrom/cdrwriter conected in a computer, mandrake 8.2 wouldn't recognized any of them when I have attached in the second IDE as master the cdrom and as slave the cdwriter; just changing the cdrom to slave and the cdwriter to master, both were recognized and now are runing like a charm. Perhaps you can try those changes and use not only the cable selection, but the jumper on every drive to switch between slave and master. Test it, it worth. -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard
I have a similar problem, but with a P4B533-E motherboard. At the beginning of boot, I receive an error about PCI resource collisions... oddly enough, my hard drive still runs at DMA just fine (at least, according to hdparm). Most of the research I have done on this problem shows that most people who receive this error just cannot get their hard drives to run DMA. My hard drive seems to run DMA fine (or, at least better than 3.0mb/sec)... but my CD-ROM drives do not work at all! I hadn't thought about switching them around as per this issue. My setup is: 1. Hard drive (60gig Maxtor, partitioned with WindowsXP and Mandrake 9.0) - on MBFastrack133 as master. 2. Toshiba DVD-ROM on IDE0, set as master 3. HP9100i CD-Writer on IDE1, set as master Perhaps I should check my jumpers. Additional info: hdparm results: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.35 seconds =365.71 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.62 seconds = 39.51 MB/sec dmesg results: 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: - 0009d400 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009d400 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1ffec000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 1ffec000 - 1ffef000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 1ffef000 - 1000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 1000 - 2000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: fec0 - fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fee0 - fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) 511MB LOWMEM available. Advanced speculative caching feature not present On node 0 totalpages: 131052 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 126956 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=mandrake2.4.19 ro root=305 quiet devfs=mount Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 2289.254 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 4561.30 BogoMIPS Memory: 515992k/524208k available (1176k kernel code, 7820k 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: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 3febfbff , vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 12K, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K CPU: After vendor init, caps: 3febfbff Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz stepping 04 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: ESR value after enabling vector: Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... . CPU clock speed is 2289.2250 MHz. . host bus clock speed is 134.6601 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 1346601, slice: 673300 CPU0T0:1346592,T1:673280,D:12,S:673300,C:1346601 mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1ee0, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/24c0] at 00:1f.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug Play device found 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 0xf000, mapped to 0xe080, size 131072k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e350 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 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH4: IDE
