[SLE] udma66 question
Hello all, I see on the support DB that lilo can't boot linux from a udma66 hard drive controller. My question is, are the disk geometries only messed up at boot time, or are they shot even after booting? If I boot from a floppy, will I still have problems? (I am still gathering the final pieces of my new machine - will be assembling it in a couple of weeks. Will be running Suse 6.3 on an Athon 700 with a 13.6Gb IBM Deskstar 7200 rpm drive and a VIA KX133 motherboard supporting udma-66) Thanks, Ray -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Raymond C. Maple wrote:
Hello all, I see on the support DB that lilo can't boot linux from a udma66 hard drive controller. My question is, are the disk geometries only messed up at boot time, or are they shot even after booting? If I boot from a floppy, will I still have problems? (I am still gathering the final pieces of my new machine - will be assembling it in a couple of weeks. Will be running Suse 6.3 on an Athon 700 with a 13.6Gb IBM Deskstar 7200 rpm drive and a VIA KX133 motherboard supporting udma-66)
I boot with a floppy with the kernel (make bzdisk) from a WD UDMA66 20 Gig drive with no problems....now. Getting to this point was a different story. I do not recall all the incantations I went through to get the OS on the drive and then enabling UDMA. I am also running a SMP system which adds to the complications. Yell at me if you need help- it may come back to me ............... -- Bob F EMail FBob@wt.net A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leapfrog With A Unicorn... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Bob F: I attempted the same approach, UDMA66 HD, booting from a floppy, and SMP, plus a bootable Win98 partition at hda1. I tried the suggested lilo command line directive that swaps hda with hde, and that worked for a little while. However the system was very unstable, and I was doing manual fsck almost every boot. I finally switched back to the UDMA33 setup, and it has been perfectly stable. From what I've read there is little if any measurable performance difference between the 33 and 66 setups. It would have been nice to implement the system at its potential. Norm Hummon On 28-Feb-2000 BobF wrote:
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Raymond C. Maple wrote:
Hello all, I see on the support DB that lilo can't boot linux from a udma66 hard drive controller. My question is, are the disk geometries only messed up at boot time, or are they shot even after booting? If I boot from a floppy, will I still have problems? (I am still gathering the final pieces of my new machine - will be assembling it in a couple of weeks. Will be running Suse 6.3 on an Athon 700 with a 13.6Gb IBM Deskstar 7200 rpm drive and a VIA KX133 motherboard supporting udma-66)
I boot with a floppy with the kernel (make bzdisk) from a WD UDMA66 20 Gig drive with no problems....now.
Getting to this point was a different story. I do not recall all the incantations I went through to get the OS on the drive and then enabling UDMA. I am also running a SMP system which adds to the complications.
Yell at me if you need help- it may come back to me ...............
-- Bob F
EMail FBob@wt.net
A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leapfrog With A Unicorn...
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