IDE questions [kernel: 2.6.1-rc1]

[Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de>]

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Hi there,

2 questions about IDE:

1.: with my machine:
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 0
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
cdrom: : unknown mrw mode page
      ^ no cdi->name?
        is this for the hda device or hdc?

hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20


2.: with another machine:
I have a disk that has some bad sectors (that says the drive fitness test from
ibm). and I think one of the sectors is where the partition table is.
on kernel boot the kernel stops when it tries to detect the partitions and
gives some "dma timeout"s.
can I disable the partition table probe? is the "hdx=noprobe" argument the right
one?


Regards,
Martin


ps.: sorry for my bad english

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Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de>
Research & Development

TechnoTrend AG <http://www.technotrend.de>

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