On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 11:10:19AM -0600, Dan Alexander wrote:
> Hi Admins,
>
> The short version:
> My new hd seems to give linux fits. Maxtor DiamondMAX 10g CHS=1401/255/63
> on a FIC VA503+ motherboard. Any ideas?
My VA503+ board, with a K6-2/350 exhibits no such behavior. I don't have
that big a drive (two smaller ones, one 3.<something> gigs, one 4.<something>),
though.
Last summer, when it was hotter-than-stink here, and it was running with
the cover off (and therefore the built-in fans provided no significant
airflow over any internal components) the drives were very hot and one
day seemed to quit working. Took them out and once they cooled it was
fine again.
I've since put the box back together with an extra cooling fan. I got
one of the slim ones that fits into an expansion-card slot, which
seems (based entirely on feel) to spew out more air than the one
built into the power supply. Since then have had no more trouble
with it.
The CPU itself seems to be very cool, it has a great-big-hairy heatsink
with fan on it, with Radio Shack silicone thermal grease. When running
Linux the heatsink isn't even warm to the touch. Haven't checked it
with Dos/Windoze, (even though it will dual-boot with either w95 or dos
6.22) because I never actually boot 'em up.
Re motherboard/BIOS settings, when I unpacked the new board (this past
April) I verified it had the factory-recommended jumper settings all
in place, then fired it up. Did no fooling with any CMOS settings other
than to turn off APM and a few such-like things (e.g. Plug-n-Pray).
Besides thermal issues, you may wish to run a good RAM diagnostic on
it overnight (if not longer). I can suggest Memtest86 which is up to
version 2.1 last I noticed. Go to
"http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86" for the latest version.
Fred
>
> The long version:
> I'm having some trouble with my linux box, and I'm pretty sure I know what
> going on, but I'm hoping you can help me find a workaround. I use my box
> mainly as a fileserver for my home network, and to increase storage space I
> installed a 10g drive. On the outside of the packaging the hd came it, it
> stated clearly "requires Windows95 or better". I figured this was to
> utilize fat32, and I was going to be using ext2 anyway, so I put it into
> the machine and created some partitions. Right now there are three
> partitions on it, two with 2g each (/vol1 & /vol2, /dev/hdb1 & /dev/hdb3
> respectively) and one of 500m (/home, /dev/hdb2).
>
> Everything worked perfectly for a month or two until /vol1 (/dev/hdb1)
> started filling up. After that, I began coming home to find my system
> locked up with messages about inode trouble with /dev/hdb on my syslog
> screen. Rebooting would tell me to run fsck manually, which I did and it
> would fix the problem and boot normally. This has been going on for about
> a month and and half - annoying, but a situation I could live with.
>
> Now, twice last week, I've come home to hex dumps all over my screen. Keep
> in mind, I've seen a total of three hex dumps in the entire life of this
> box, including the two last week - so this is normally a very stable system
> which I have set up as a samba server. Does anyone know of any BIOS tweeks
> or settings inside linux that would help alleviate this situation?
> Hardware-wise, the machine is an AMD k6ii-450 running on a FIC VA503+
> motherboard. The hard drive in question is a Maxtor DiamondMAX 10g drive.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> [root@crab /root]# cat /var/log/dmesg | grep hdb
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> hdb: Maxtor 91152D8, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: Maxtor 91152D8, 10991MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1401/255/63
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
>
>
> [root@crab /root]# fdisk /dev/hdb
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1401.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
>
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 1 262 2104483+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 263 326 514080 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb3 327 588 2104515 83 Linux
>
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