From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc3-mm2] EDD: use EXTENDED READ command, add CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MB
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 01:13:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410090117_MC3-1-8BDA-288E@compuserve.com> (raw)
Matt Domsch wrote:
> Then BIOS says you've got two more disks.
> Both disks 82 and 83 look remarkably small (20808 sectors each,
> ~10MB). And I would bet there's no media present, as there's no
> mbr_signature field given... So BIOS says there's a disk there, but
> there really isn't. Which could cause the kind of timeout you're
> seeing. To what are these attached? It's the BIOS for this
> controller that's probably what's lying.
Some Dell notebooks do this, IIRC. Try removing the HD from a Latitude
CPi or CPiA and then booting from a floppy distro like tomsrtbt (from
www.toms.net). It's been a while but that 20808 number looks awfully
familiar...
--Chuck Ebbert 09-Oct-04 00:30:52
Current book: Stephen King: The Waste Lands
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2004-10-09 5:13 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2004-10-12 15:02 ` [PATCH 2.6.9-rc3-mm2] EDD: use EXTENDED READ command, add CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MB Matt Domsch
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