Re: odd behaviour with harddisk
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya burkhard
>
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Burkhard Ritter wrote:
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> > 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
Bios does not. I do not know about the motherboard,etc. Lilo is not
important, as I do not boot from it.
>
> you have to tell linux that that drive is 60GB by specifying its
> c/h/s as defined in "RawCHS=16383/16/63"
How to do this? Fdisk says it has 255 heads, 7476 cylinders and 63
sectors.
> - 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 ... )
My motherboard does not support this.
>
> your accounting folks probably want to know the serial number of the disk
> :-)
>
> c ya
> alvin
>
>
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