Re: disappearing hard disk [almost SOLVED]
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:24:49 -0700
ben <benfoley@rcn.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:50 pm, csj wrote:
[snip: Problem with one hard drive in a two-drive combo "disappearing" after
a reboot]
> > In the meantime I had disconnected the second (originally hdb) drive,
> > and I managed several reboots without hda going AWOL. So the problem
> > seems to be that the system can't handle two ide hard disks reliably.
> > Ever heard of that one? thnx
>
> check alice m. pinard's thread on a similar issue with a 60gig maxtor on an
> ide adapter, due to bios defincies in the motherboard. you might want to ask
> others using the same drive to share dmesg output. in her case, the dmesg
> info on the maxtor hd was showing it as pio rather than dma. allegedly, there
> are also kernel patches to enable udma.
>
> i can't remember where i came across the info on udma compatibility, but the
> gist of it was that all hd devices on a system, regardless of channel
> separation, have to be udma compatible. maybe it's a kernel bug. dunno. you
> might want to google for that.
After recompiling the kernel to enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y for my
mobo's SiS 735 chipset, I reversed the test. The Maxtor drive is working
like a dream (hope it doesn't wake up). By itself. So the problem seems
not to be the drives themselves, but how one (Fujitsu 20 GB, UDMA 66,
master) plays with the other (Maxtor 60GB, UDMA 100). So does anybody
know of any kernel boot parameter (something like hda|hdb=xxx) I can
pass to grub to let these two live together in peace?
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