Re: odd behaviour with harddisk
hi ya burkhard
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote:
> >
> > > Hallo.
> > >
> > > I have installed a 60G harddisk (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9)in my old P130.
...
> spass:/home/buri# hdparm -i
> /dev/hdb
>
> /dev/hdb:
>
> Model=Maxtor 6Y060L0, FwRev=YAR41VW0, SerialNo=Y2R7JV6E
> Config={ Fixed }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=120103200
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6
> AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
> Drive Supports : ataATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 ATA-6 ATA-7
>
> But what can I take from this?
says you have a 60GB drive...
your bios on the mb w/ your p130 cpu probably does not support 32MB+ disks
or something
- dont forget to tell lilo to use "lba" instead of "linear" mode
you have to tell linux that that drive is 60GB by specifying its
c/h/s as defined in "RawCHS=16383/16/63"
- but you probably wont be able to boot from it... donno ..
just depends on how picky those old bios is
it also says you're running in *mdma2 ....
you should reset your disk to be ATA-100 ( hdparm -X69 ... )
your accounting folks probably want to know the serial number of the disk
:-)
c ya
alvin
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