Vidiot wrote:
>
> >> Partition check:
> >> ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0
> >> ide-floppy: Can't get drive capabilities
> >> hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> >> hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
Do you get these error messages regardless if the disk is
inserted or not?
> >Your system still sees the drive as hdd (i.e. IDE, I guess you
> >don't need the scsi emulation)
>
> An earlier e-mail suggested that. Once I get it working, I can boot the
> kernel that doesn't have it and see what happens.
Not sure what/how the scsi emulation does. How about trying that
kernel now?
Booting with and without disk inserted. A known-good formatted
one, preferably ext2.
> Can't get that far. The following error is returned:
>
> #>fdisk /dev/hdc
>
> Unable to open /dev/hdc
This _is_ a problem. Without fdisk accessing it, don't even think
about "mount".
That's why I'm concentrating on the proper hw detection.
It is possible that errors at boot time prevents further drive
access (marking it defective or something).
With the swapped drives, can you access them properly in dos/win?
(if you have that :)
I'm thinking about master/slave jumpers, etc.
BTW, what motherboard do you have? Is it a newer one? (the bios
may print a date at boot time)
Sorry about some maybe silly questions, I only played alot with
Syquest IDE, which worked exactly like a harddrive. I'm hoping
the ZIP is not that far.
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