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Re: Debian/Hurd d-i installation report



Hi!

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:15:26 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> Justus Winter, le Tue 22 Oct 2013 16:10:06 +0200, a écrit :
> > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-10-22 15:12:12)
> > > > * I installed a 250GB hard disk but it doesn't show up with the full
> > > >   capacity, dunno why.
> > > 
> > > If you installed through IDE, that's expected: Linux drivers in Mach
> > > support LBA28 only, which is 128GiB.

Also known as: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26425> and
<https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7489>.


> > Somewhat related, the board has a SATA controller, and I plan to test
> > that as well. How is the status of the driver in gnumach?
> 
> It's working for my laptop and qemu at least. There is just still the
> issue of sharing an irq with netdde, which should be solved by "just"
> dropping irq disable/enable from netdde.

I've gathered some notes on
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq/sata_disk_drives/discussion.html>,
and per
<http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3C87d2s3frrw.fsf%40kepler.schwinge.homeip.net%3E>,
the that card installed in my system is not yet supported, and I have not
yet been able to spent the required amount of time for adding such
support (it is not at all urgent, after all).


Grüße,
 Thomas

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