Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264823AbTFBSAd (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:00:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264824AbTFBSAd (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:00:33 -0400 Received: from [65.198.37.67] ([65.198.37.67]:484 "EHLO gghcwest.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264823AbTFBSAc (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:00:32 -0400 Subject: Re: Different geometry settings for identical drives From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" To: Petr Vandrovec Cc: Andries Brouwer , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <30751917229@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> References: <30751917229@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1054577632.10369.5.camel@heat> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.3.3 (Preview Release) Date: 02 Jun 2003 11:13:52 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2386 Lines: 49 On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 17:19, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 30 May 03 at 16:38, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 16:20, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > On 30 May 03 at 15:46, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > > > > > > > hda: host protected area => 1 > > > > hda: setmax LBA 234441648, native 234375000 > > > > hda: 234375000 sectors (120000 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232514/16/63, UDMA(100) > > > > hdc: attached ide-disk driver. > > > > hdc: host protected area => 1 > > > > hdc: setmax LBA 234441648, native 234375000 > > > > hdc: 234375000 sectors (120000 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232514/16/63, UDMA(100) > > > > hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver. > > > > hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > > > > > > > The result is that hda works fine but hdc doesn't. When I try to mke2fs > > > > on the latter I see: > > > > > > > > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > > > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=234441583, sector=232343808 > > > The x86-64.org patch doesn't touch much outside of arch/x86_64. You are > > right that CONFIG_IDE_STROKE is off: > > Ok, after looking at your kernel output more, it seems like that there is > something strange with your drive: we asked for sector 232343808 (0xDD94900), > but your drive reports SectorIdNotFound on sector 234441583 (0xDF94B6F), > which is 2097775 (0x020026F) sectors away from sector we requested... > As with LBA largest transfer length is 256 sectors, there is something > wrong with your disk firmware... Which points to the dead disk > together with some bug in the disk firmware (maybe drive wanted to > report bug in sector DD9496F, but got it somehow wrong?). Can you > try running Western's drive diagnostics on that drive? I rebooted with the same drive but added hdc=14589,255,63, and now I can make the filesystem perfectly well. So it does seem to be an issue with the way the disk is addressed. Or I could just be fooling myself. Later I can try swapping in identical hardware and see if the problem persists. All these disks are brand new and were burned in and qualified by the vendor. -jwb - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/