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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:53:12 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: ebuddington@wesleyan.edu
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Subject: Re: 2.5.49: "hdb: cannot handle device with more than 16 heads"
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:50:19PM -0500, Eric Buddington wrote:

> This is 2.5.49, compiled for i386 with almost all modules using
> gcc-3.2.  On my PII Omnibook 4100, the messages stop after the first
> hda: message (where it would normally identify the drive). The same
> problem existed in 2.4.48.
> 
> When booting on my Athlon (hda:Maxtor 5T040H4, hdb: Maxtor 90840D6), I
> get the following boot messages:
> 
> hda: cannot handle device with more than 16 heads - giving up

You don't want to use the new ide driver instead of the legacy hd one?

Andries
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