Re: Needs help with Kernel upgrade
On Sunday 26 September 2004 12:39 pm, Silvan wrote:
> On Saturday 25 September 2004 04:16 pm, Bruce DeGrasse wrote:
> > missing hda6 hdb1
> >
> > hda: 12594960 sectors (6448 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, UDMA(33)
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1[EZD] p2
>
> It isn't finding the sixth partition. I'm not sure what [EZD] means.
>
> > hdb: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
> > } hdb: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> >
> > hdb: max request size: 128KiB
> > hdb: 1667232 sectors (853 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=1654/16/63, BUG DMA OFF
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
>
> That doesn't look encouraging. It also fails to come up with DMA enabled,
> and it looks like maybe the kernel is reporting this as a bug.
>
> It *is* finding the first partition, so it seems it ought to be finding
> hdb1. I would imagine that the reason it isn't has something to do with
> those set_drive_speed_status errors.
>
> If kernel 2.4.x works, I'd say this might be kernel bugs or kernel
> incompatibility with your hardware. I'd recommend that you go back to the
> old kernel.
Silvan, Michael -- thanks for the suggestion to try 2.4.x, it works. I have
reviewed the Dmesgs and nothing jumps out at me. I will keep 2.4 kernel for
this week. Next week I will probably revisit 2.6 kernel. In the mean time
should a problem report be made out or should I wait until next week.
Bruce
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