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From: John_McRoberts@Mitel.COM
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:34:54 +0100
Subject: reading hard disk partition
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I can't seem to read the hard disk partitions. The hardware is custom hardware
based on a PPC860 and a hardware IDE interface implemented in an FPGA. As can be
seen from the output the hard disk is recognised.

Any ideas??


output from linux kernel

ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
probing for hda: present=0, media=32, probetype=ATA
hda: Ritek Corporation, ATA DISK drive
hda: Ritek Corporation, ATA DISK drive
hda: 250368 sectors (128 MB) w/2KiB Cache, CHS=978/8/32
ide-floppy driver 0.97
Partition check:
 hda: hda1
hd: unable to get major 3 for hard disk
<============================ error


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