Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266488AbUJIFSE (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 01:18:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266491AbUJIFSE (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 01:18:04 -0400 Received: from siaag1af.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.8]:19195 "EHLO siaag1af.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266488AbUJIFRz (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 01:17:55 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 01:13:58 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc3-mm2] EDD: use EXTENDED READ command, add CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MB To: Matt Domsch Cc: linux-kernel Message-ID: <200410090117_MC3-1-8BDA-288E@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 994 Lines: 22 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 - 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/