Re: [ILUG] Hard Drive Issues

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain lbedford.org)
Date: Fri 22 Jun 2001 - 10:57:28 IST


On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:45:07AM +0100, HAMILTON,DAVID (HP-Ireland,ex2) came forth with:
> Hi All,
>
> I bought a Quantum (now Maxtor) Fireball AS 40Gb drive from jungle last
> week, and have installed it in my Redhat 7.1 server at home.
> I am trying to use it as one single partition, but seem to be getting a lot
> of strange problems.
> dmesg return the following output:
> ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
> hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> hdb: drive not ready for commad
Is that something to do with the multimode thingy? or is that
something else entirely?

(do you have 2.2.19, or 2.4.5, there are a lot of IDE fixes in 2.4.5 anyway)

> I have tried using the drive on the on-board controller, the board's a Abit
> P5AB, and on a Hotrod 66 controller.
> It seems to be detected correctly, but I'm not 100% sure.
> Is this a limitation of partition sizes, or do I have a dodgy disk?
> I also never new that using CS was mandatory on UDMA 66+ disks, so could
> this be causing it?
It is? I haven't been using it and mine working fine (that said, I never
have more than one device per channel)

L.

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