[SuSE Linux] maxtor 11.5 G drive and suse 6.0
Hi, I currently run suse 5.3 off a 11.5 G drive but boot off lilo on a 2.2G drive running a different version of 5.3 as well. It runs perfectly OK. Now I bought suse 6.0 and want to upgrade the machine. When I try using the install disk it hangs after seeing the 11.5 G drive. Here's what is says : ... .. hdb Maxtor .. .. hdb:hdb: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error} hdb: dma_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatus Error} And here's where it hangs. This used to happen with the 5.3 boot as well but I was able to get through this when I booted from the fullblown kernel from the hard-drive. What is the difference between the one that's on the floppy and the one eventually installed from it on the hard drive. Any help appreciated. -Deep -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
Pradeep Sagam wrote:
What is the difference between the one that's on the floppy and the one eventually installed from it on the hard drive.
Well the one on the floppy boots, because the image can be found, wheras the kernel on the hard drive is failing probably because lilo can't find it, or in your case the hard drive isn't being properly found. It sounds like you may have the "no-autotune ide" problem, but I'm not sure. You may just have the 1024 cylinder problem. Send more info, like which drive is /dev/hda. /dev/hdb, etc. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
Thanks for your response. I'm sorry my message wasn't clear enough. The problem *is* with the floppy boot. The lilo boot is OK as my lilo resides on another smaller, hard drive and points to the image on the 11.5 gig drive. I'm still using this set up as a work around when I initially came across this problem as my machine is a semi-production type machine. What's interesting is boot floppies that come with suse hangs right when it tries to partition check this drive. I've used mulinux which just 'jumps' over this if I remember correctly there were error messages as well. This happens only at boot up so something in the image itself must be different. again not because when I install this stock image it works. I don't see suse supporting this big drive officially. excerpts of dmesg of the working version: ------------------------------------------- .... Linux version 2.0.35 (root@Mandelbrot.suse.de) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #2 Wed Aug 19 11:33:27 MEST 1998 ..... ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf0f0-0xf0f7 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf0f8-0xf0ff hda: WDC AC22100H, 2014MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63, DMA hdb: Maxtor 91190D7, 11349MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=23059/16/63, DMA hdc: FX120T, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: CONNER CTT8000-A, ATAPI TAPE drive, DMA ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ...... ....... Partition check: hda: [PTBL] [1023/64/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 > hdb: [PTBL] [1446/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 > ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 2600kB pipeline, 310ms tDSC, DMA ----------------------------------------- the floppy boot hangs at "hdb:" with the error msg posted earlier. Thanks -Deep zentara wrote:
Pradeep Sagam wrote:
What is the difference between the one that's on the floppy and the one eventually installed from it on the hard drive.
Well the one on the floppy boots, because the image can be found, wheras the kernel on the hard drive is failing probably because lilo can't find it, or in your case the hard drive isn't being properly found.
It sounds like you may have the "no-autotune ide" problem, but I'm not sure. You may just have the 1024 cylinder problem.
Send more info, like which drive is /dev/hda. /dev/hdb, etc.
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