Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 17:38:43 +0100 (CET)
From: Carlo Orecchia <carlo@numb.darktech.org>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KERNEL 2.6.3 and MAXTOR 160 GB
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Here is the boot message that concern my disk

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with 
idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.0
ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03be900, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: no response (status = 0xa1), resetting drive
hdc: no response (status = 0xa1)
hdd: no response (status = 0xa1), resetting drive
hdd: no response (status = 0xa1)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 320173056 sectors (163929 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=19929/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.

Here is the kernel config


# ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
#
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y

#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO is not set

#
# IDE chipset support/bugfixes
#
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3=y
# CONFIG_WDC_ALI15X3 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5520 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X=y
# CONFIG_HPT34X_AUTODMA is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD=y
# CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_DMA_NONPCI is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set

Hope is correct


Thanks for replying

Carlo.

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 03:57:11PM +0100, Carlo Orecchia wrote:
> 
> > I'm running redhat 9 on an XP 1800 and a ASUS A7A266. I recently buy a new 
> > HD a maxtor Diamond Plus 160 with 8 mega cache. The fact is that the kernel that comes 
> > with REDHAT (2.4.20-8) shows the entire size of the disk (163.7 gb) but 
> > the kernel 2.6.1 or 2.6.3 does not. It only shows 137 gb. I'm getting 
> > crazy trying to understand why this is happening! Please let 
> > me know if theres a patch to fix this. I really  found amazing the 2.6 
> > kernel and i don't want to come back to use the 2.4!
> > What can i do? 
> 
> You can tell us the boot messages that concern your disk.
> You can tell us the CONFIG options that concern IDE.
> For example, did you set CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE ?
> 

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