On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 01:34:08 +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> I saw that my IDE command stuff has gotten into some recent kernel,
> maybe 2.3.99pre9 or so. If you have time and opportunity to experiment
> a little, I can send you the source of a small utility I used
> three months ago to play with SET MAX ADDRESS on a 34 GB disk.
Andries,
I have a Castlewood ORB 2.2 GB EIDE drive that comes from the factory
configured as a fixed drive:
hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=CASTLEWOOD ORB2-E, FwRev=USR-3.85, SerialNo=19E10A241-NO CRT SN
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=4273/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=38
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=4273/16/63, CurSects=4307184, LBA=yes, LBAsects=4307184
IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio3 pio4
DMA modes: *mdma2
Castlewood ships a Windows utility you can use to configure the drive
as removable. Since I don't do Windows, I've been looking for a way to
do this on Linux.
I have contacted Castlewood support, and they have supplied me with
their
EIDE OEM manual. I assume it contains the info I need to reconfigure my
drive as removable.
My question: Is your "IDE command stuff", and your "small utility",
what I need to convince my ORB it is really a removable drive?
Can you offer any advice? (You seem to know lots about removable
drives.)
TIA for any help you can offer ;)
Also, my apologies to the list if this is too off-topic.
-- Jim
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