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[opensuse-project] Re: openSUSE 10.3 beta 1: problem with libata and hard drive geometry
- From: "Michel Salim" <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:14:27 -0400
- Message-id: <f224c6140708181214o491bc333hb037877b297b7e38@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 18/08/07, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I tried running the openSUSE 10.3b1 installer (using the GNOME x86
> CD), and ran across a problem with detected disk geometry on a
> Thinkpad T41p, with no other OS installed.
>
> I have had problems in the past with openSUSE 10.2: fdisk detects a
> C/H/S geometry of 9729/255/63, while the kernel itself would detect a
> much higher C value, with H=16. On my first install things worked fine
> for a while, until the system locked up during use a few days
> afterwards (running the latest kernel), which is probably due to the
> kernel accessing the disk (and writing to it) using the wrong
> geometry.
>
> On 10.2 I can just pass 'hda=9729,255,63' to force the kernel to use
> the same geometry used to partition the disk.
>
> On 10.3, I tried passing 'sda=9729,255,63' but to no avail; YaST would
> warn that parted could not access the disk and thus I could not touch
> the partition table, and dropping to a console and checking with fdisk
> shows that only 9300-something cylinders are detected.
>
9364 cylinders, the rest presumably gobbled up by the Hidden Protected
Area. Funnily, setting it to "disabled" in the BIOS does not affect
things.
I tried using "hwprobe=-modules.pata" as specified in the release
notes, but now encounter another problem: YaST would read the hard
drive OK, and would verify the installation CD OK as well, but after
that, could not find the installation medium, and would continue
asking for "openSUSE 10.3 CD 1" to be inserted.
This looks like a YaST bug -- is there a way to circumvent this? e.g.
manually mounting the CD in a specific directory.
Failing that, can I instruct hwprobe to just skip pata for ide0 (hard
drive is attached as hda) but use pata for ide1 (optical drive was
hdc), and thus YaST would find the optical drive where it expected it?
Thanks,
--
Michel
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> I tried running the openSUSE 10.3b1 installer (using the GNOME x86
> CD), and ran across a problem with detected disk geometry on a
> Thinkpad T41p, with no other OS installed.
>
> I have had problems in the past with openSUSE 10.2: fdisk detects a
> C/H/S geometry of 9729/255/63, while the kernel itself would detect a
> much higher C value, with H=16. On my first install things worked fine
> for a while, until the system locked up during use a few days
> afterwards (running the latest kernel), which is probably due to the
> kernel accessing the disk (and writing to it) using the wrong
> geometry.
>
> On 10.2 I can just pass 'hda=9729,255,63' to force the kernel to use
> the same geometry used to partition the disk.
>
> On 10.3, I tried passing 'sda=9729,255,63' but to no avail; YaST would
> warn that parted could not access the disk and thus I could not touch
> the partition table, and dropping to a console and checking with fdisk
> shows that only 9300-something cylinders are detected.
>
9364 cylinders, the rest presumably gobbled up by the Hidden Protected
Area. Funnily, setting it to "disabled" in the BIOS does not affect
things.
I tried using "hwprobe=-modules.pata" as specified in the release
notes, but now encounter another problem: YaST would read the hard
drive OK, and would verify the installation CD OK as well, but after
that, could not find the installation medium, and would continue
asking for "openSUSE 10.3 CD 1" to be inserted.
This looks like a YaST bug -- is there a way to circumvent this? e.g.
manually mounting the CD in a specific directory.
Failing that, can I instruct hwprobe to just skip pata for ide0 (hard
drive is attached as hda) but use pata for ide1 (optical drive was
hdc), and thus YaST would find the optical drive where it expected it?
Thanks,
--
Michel
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