Olaf,
You have proven the valid case of onboard chipests and thank you.
This works only because of LBA translations.
Strip the drive and pass hdb=79406,16,63
root@p6dnf% fdisk /dev/hdg
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 13870.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help):
13870*16*63 != 79406*16*63
Welcome to the world of 40GB becoming ~7GB......
Recall some time ago that people raged over the issue of forcing huge
geometry.
Cheers,
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Olaf Dabrunz wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> Just in case this might help as an interim-solution:
>
> I use the Maxtor 94098U8 (40GB, 5400 rpm) since end of January. I have no
> problems using it under Linux 2.2.13 (SuSE 6.3), although I use an older
> motherboard with Award BIOS and no fix available. I just checked the higher
> cylinders again with "mke2fs -c /dev/hdb11".
>
> --------------------
> And my setup is (sorry, it's Oscar night...:-):
>
> No jumper, no JUMPER.EXE (or somesuch)
> Disable the drive in the BIOS (keeps it from hanging)
> Install EZ-Drive (MaxBlast) (actually, don't know if this has any effect other
> than helping to boot Windows...)
> Use lilo with an "append" parameter of "hdb=4982,255,63"
> --------------------
>
> This gives me:
>
> santana:~# hdparm -i /dev/hdb
>
> /dev/hdb:
>
> Model=Maxtor 94098U8, FwRev=FA500860, SerialNo=G802S72C
> Config={ Fixed }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
> BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
> DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=0(slow)
> CurCHS=4982/255/63, CurSects=80041248, LBA=yes, LBAsects=80041248
> tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 *mword2
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
>
>
> santana:~# cat /proc/ide/hdb/capacity
> 80041248
> santana:~# cat /proc/ide/hdb/driver
> ide-disk version 1.09
> santana:~# cat /proc/ide/hdb/geometry
> physical 79406/16/63
> logical 4982/255/63
> santana:~# cat /proc/ide/hdb/identify
> 0040 3fff 0000 0010 0000 0000 003f 0000
> 0000 0000 4738 3032 5337 3243 2020 2020
> 2020 2020 2020 2020 0003 1000 0039 4641
> 3530 3038 3630 4d61 7874 6f72 2039 3430
> 3938 5538 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
> 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 8010
> 0000 2f00 4000 0200 0000 0007 3fff 0010
> 003f fc10 00fb 0100 5520 04c5 0000 0407
> 0003 0078 0078 0078 0078 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 003e 0017 7c69 4009 4000 7c69 0001 4000
> 001f 0000 0000 0000 0000 6b00 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 76a5
> santana:~# cat /proc/ide/hdb/
> cache geometry model smart_values
> capacity identify settings
> driver media smart_thresholds
> santana:~# cat /proc/ide/hdb/settings
> name value min max mode
> ---- ----- --- --- ----
> bios_cyl 4982 0 65535 rw
> bios_head 255 0 255 rw
> bios_sect 63 0 63 rw
> breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw
> bswap 0 0 1 r
> file_readahead 124 0 2097151 rw
> io_32bit 0 0 3 rw
> keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
> max_kb_per_request 64 1 127 rw
> multcount 0 0 8 rw
> nice1 1 0 1 rw
> nowerr 0 0 1 rw
> pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
> slow 0 0 1 rw
> unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
> using_dma 0 0 1 rw
>
> santana:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4982 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 1 255 2048256 a5 BSD/386
> /dev/hdb2 256 4982 37969627+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 256 272 136521 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb6 273 289 136521 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb7 290 481 1542208+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb8 482 736 2048256 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb9 737 1578 6763333+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb10 1579 3491 15366141 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb11 3492 4982 11976426 83 Linux
>
> (I test and work on several Linux distributions)
>
> Bye,
>
> Olaf Dabrunz
>
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