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Re: harddisk inacessible in G4PowerBook



On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:58:36PM +0100, Bernhard Lang wrote:
> hello all
> 
> I'm a new list member but not at all new to Linux (using a G3PowerBook
> with LinuxPPC since 2000). I just bought a new G4 and got stuck during
> Linux installation (actually, just behind starting point):
> 

Welcome

> Booting my G4 PowerBook (model 5.2, PPC G4 1.1 1GHz, boot rom 4.71f1) the
> harddisk remains invisible to Linux, while the Combo CD-RW/DVD-R is
> accessible.
> 

There is a debian-ppc (I may be getting the name a bit wrong here). I
am guessing that you will have a better chance of people knowing the
answer there.

> System Profile (OSX 10.3)
> ATA-3 Bus: MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8122
> ATA-6 Bus: FUJITSU MHT2060AT
> 
> dmesg:
> 
> ---snip---
> Linux version 2.4.18-newpmac (root@voltaire) (gcc version 2.95.4. \
>    200110002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Thu Mar 14 22:44:49 EST 2002
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> IN from bad port c000 at c00f56ac
> IN from bad port c100 at c00f56ac
> [...]
> IN from bad port cf00 at c00f56ac
> pmac_ide: enabling IDE bus ID 0
> hda: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8122, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0xf4194000-0xf4194007,0xf4104160 in irq 24
> hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2
> ide_pmac: MDMA, cycleTime: 120, accessTime: 90, recTime: 30
> ide_pmac: Set MDMA timing for mode 2, reg: 0x00011d26
> hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048 Cache, (U)DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> ---snap---
> 
> so it looks like that ide_pmac cannot detect my harddisk. I tried several
> kernel boot parameters. But as I don't have much experience with them, I'm
> not really able to test systematically.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what might be going on, or where I could find
> further information?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Bernhard
> 
> 
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