Re: IDE driver problem ( clarification )

[Thomas Lange <thomas@corelatus.se>]

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Hmm, maybe I should have waited for my first cup of coffee
before replying ;-)
I work with Compact Flash in IDE mode every day where we
use Mac (Apple) partitioning.
My statement is true for that case ( see attach ).

/Thomas

Thomas Lange wrote:
> The partition table is written to the first partition
> on the device, in your example hda1.
> Use mke2fs on hda2 and I am sure it work just great.
> 
> Cheers,
> /Thomas
> 
> Liu Hongming (Alan) wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am porting IDE drivers(Since my hardware has endian issue),
>> and now it could work,however it has some abnormal problems:
>>
>> I could 'fdisk'  /dev/hda,and partition it into several partitions.
>> After this,I reboot my board and see all the partitions is there.
>> Then I 'mke2fs' on /dev/hda1,after this, when using 'fdisk' again,
>> I found all partitions gone! At this time,I could not access /dev/hda1
>> any more.However, I could 'mount /dev/hda /opt', it really worked,and
>> I could create/read/write/erase files in it.
>>
>> I dumped the first sector of Hard disk and found that it has been
>> zeroed.Now I dont know what the problem is,since I am not familiar
>> with fs parts of linux kernel,and I dont know what 'mke2fs' has done.
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin D. Kissell [mailto:kevink@mips.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 6:47 AM
>> To: Mark and Janice Juszczec; linux-mips@linux-mips.org
>> Cc: uhler@mips.com; dom@mips.com; echristo@redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: r3000 instruction set
>>
>>
>> Kaffe's makefiles won't pick up on configuration changes, so any time
>> you re-configure for a different engine or debug level, you need to do
>> a make clean.  At least, that's the way it was the last time I worked 
>> on it.
>> If you had a partial build with JIT, then changed to intrp, then you 
>> could
>> get all kinds of strange behavior.  The address range of your error us a
>> dead giveaway.  It's too high to be the kaffe code segment, but too low
>> to be a shared library.  It's where I'd expect the heap to be, and where
>> I remember the JIT buffers being allocated when I was trying to debug
>> that stuff.
>>
>>  > Its been a few weeks since I built this version of kaffe.  The 
>> configure
>>  > output says I did specify --with-engine=intrp.  I'll delete the 
>> compiled
>>  > stuff, reconfigure (double checking that I give it 
>> --with-engine=intrp),
>>  > recompile and retest.
>>  >
>>  > I'll post my results.
>>  >
>>  > Mark
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > >From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
>>  > >To: "Mark and Janice Juszczec" <juszczec@hotmail.com>,        > 
>> ><linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
>>  > >CC: <uhler@mips.com>, <dom@mips.com>, <echristo@redhat.com>
>>  > >Subject: Re: r3000 instruction set
>>  > >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:21:19 +0100
>>  > >
>>  > > > Someone suggested posting the message I get.  Here it is:
>>  > > >
>>  > > > >./kaffe-bin FirstClass
>>  > > > [kaffe-bin:6] Illgal instruction 674696a at 2abb034, ra=2adbffd0,
>>  > > > P0_STATUS=0000500
>>  > > > pid 6: killed (signal 4)
>>  > > > >Reading command line: Try again
>>  > > > Kernel panic: Attmpted to kill int!
>>  > >
>>  > >Let me guess.  You are running little-endian.  The instruction word
>>  > >in memory would be 0x6a697406.  Do you think it's a coincidence
>>  > >that 0x6a6974 spells "jit" in ASCII?  ;o)
>>  > >
>>  > >The reported address range looks like that where kaffe builds its
>>  > >JITted instruciton buffers in MIPS/Linux.  And, like I say, JIT is
>>  > >somewhat broken for MIPS in Kaffe.  Which version of the kaffe 
>> sources
>>  > >are you building, and have you tried configuring with 
>> --with-engine=intrp
>>  > >as I suggested?
>>  > >
>>  > >             Regards,
>>  > >
>>  > >             Kevin K.
>>  >
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Command (? for help): p
/dev/hda
        #                    type name                length   base    ( size )  system
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                   63 @ 1       ( 31.5k)  Partition map