I've been following this thread with interest. I've got
4.2, with a 2.0.30 kernel. I had three IDE devices running,
two disks, and an ATAPI CD, but adding another drive has me
in trouble.
/dev/hda1, a 1.2's, holds lilo & Win95. The /dev/hdb is all
Linux.
The motherboard is an AMI PCI Excalibur, with a primary and
secondary PCI controller built in. It's about 4 years old,
with the most recent BIOS installed.
The two 1.2's are on the primary controller, and the CD on
the secondary, which was originally jumpered as master on
the second controller. I added a 4.0 WD as the master on
the secondary channel, and moved the CD to slave secondary.
System wouldn't boot. Okay, I told the BIOS to ignore the
slave on the secondary, and it boots. (CD is still plugged
in.)
The boot message reported:
hda: WDC AC31200F, 1222MBw/64kB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63
hdb: WDC AC21200H, 1222MBw/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63
hdc: WDC AC34000L, 3815MBw/256kB Cache, LB w/256kB Cache, LBA, CHS=7752/16/63
I can run cfdisk or fdisk on /dev/hdc, no problem.
One oddity, I have LBA turned on for the secondary
controller, yet the AMI boot screen shows the LBA *off* for
the third drive? (I've tried all this with LBA on/off, all
the combos for the secondary controller). The BIOS doesn't
seem to offer as many choices for the secondary channel.
I ran cfdisk on the new on /dev/hdc, telling it to make it a
ext2, primary partion, and to maximize it. This drive will
be Linux-only. I've also tried a small partion, say 500 MB.
cfdisk runs fine.
mkfs is another story.
mkft -t ext2 /dev/hdc1
I've also tried it specifing an end block, picked up from
fdisk.
mkfs starts building the inode tables, and counts up
nnn/407. At various points along the way (I've tried this
7x now), the nnn count-up just stops. I can't toggle to
another virtual console, vulcan nerve pinch doesn't work,
cap and num locks won't toggle. I have to power down, fsck
the hdb partitions and start over.
I've read the pertinent HOW-TOs, and the ide.txt in the
kernel docs, but am stuck at the moment.
Help please.
Thanks,
Jim
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