: I'm slightly puzzled by some recent changes to the AHA152X SCSI driver
: which seem to have broken fdisk and hdparm's idea of what my SCSI HD
: looks like (though everything else works).
: I got my SCSI HD when Linux was at 1.3.91. All worked fine: SCSI
: stuff compiled as modules, "Automatic Disk Geometry determination
: (CONFIG_SCSI_AUTO_BIOSP)" set on and aha152x selected. Partitioned my
: drive as follows:
: --------------------------------------------------------------------
: Disk /dev/sda: 34 heads, 61 sectors, 1017 cylinders
: Units = cylinders of 2074 * 512 bytes
: Now, with 1.99.9 (pre2.0.9), I get:
: --------------------------------------------------------------------
: Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 131 cylinders
: Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
: Are you booting off an IDE drive by any chance?
: It's unfortunate that you installed this drive with the CONFIG_SCSI_AUTO_BIOSP
: option turned on. It was a badly broken idea. Most SCSI controllers implement
: only a small number of cylinder/head/sector translations, and using one not
: supported by the controller and driver will lead to a disk that can never be
: booted by the BIOS. If the driver provides a function to provide the
: translation, then the driver must be consulted not overridden as the old code
: did.
: You can certainly patch the aha152x driver as you've done, but I really
: recommend that your rebuild your disk when you can using the correct
: translations.
: Leonard
The correct translations are allright, but IMO it couldn`t be that
someone must rebuild his disk only of this changes.
Why can't the aha152x driver accept the values of the partition-table it
gets from the Bios?!
Robert.
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Here is my error-report:
I used the AHA152x low-level driver for my controller AHA2825.
I got errors since changes in 1.3.98 and still doesn't work since
changes in 1.99.5 alias pre2.0.5.
That were the last changes in aha152x.[ch] until 1.99.9 either.
I just noticed the bug when I wanted to upgrade from 1.99.4 to 1.99.9.
Lilo gave me the error-message listed below.
The previous version I used was 1.3.97 and worked well, since the changes
were made in 1.3.98.
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1.3.97
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root@walker:~# lilo
added linux*
[...]
root@walker:~# fdisk_v2.1 /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2103.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 2103 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1 501 513008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 502 502 1002 513024 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 1003 1003 1503 513024 83 Linux native
/dev/sda4 1024 1504 2103 614400 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1024 1504 1554 52208 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 1024 1555 2055 513008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 2048 2056 2103 49136 83 Linux native
Command (m for help): q
root@walker:~# fdisk_v3.04 -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 2103 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0+ 500 501- 513008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 501 1001 501 513024 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 1002 1502 501 513024 83 Linux native
/dev/sda4 1503 2102 600 614400 5 DOS Extended
/dev/sda5 1503+ 1553 51- 52208 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 1554+ 2054 501- 513008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 2055+ 2102 48- 49136 83 Linux native
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1.3.98
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root@walker:~# lilo
Device 0x0800: Invalid partition table, 2nd entry
3D address: 1/0/501 (8048565)
Linear address: 31/221/63 (1026048)
root@walker:~# fdisk_v2.1 /dev/sda
You must set heads.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 0 heads, 63 sectors, 267 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 64 33 1026048 513008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 1 1026049 2052096 513024 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 1 2052097 3078144 513024 83 Linux native
/dev/sda4 4001 3078145 4306944 614400 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4001 3078177 3182592 52208 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 4001 3182625 4208640 513008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 4001 4208673 4306944 49136 83 Linux native
Command (m for help): q
root@walker:~# fdisk_v3.04 -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 0 heads, 63 sectors, 267 cylinders
Units = megabytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End MB #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0+ 500 501- 513008 83 Linux native
partition ends on cylinder 500, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda2 501 1001 501 513024 83 Linux native
partition ends on cylinder 1001, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda3 1002 1502 501 513024 83 Linux native
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda4 1503 2102 600 614400 5 DOS Extended
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda5 1503+ 1553 51- 52208 82 Linux swap
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda6 1554+ 2054 501- 513008 83 Linux native
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda7 2055+ 2102 48- 49136 83 Linux native
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
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1.99.9 alias pre2.0.9
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root@walker:~# lilo
Device 0x0800: Invalid partition table, 2nd entry
3D address: 1/0/501 (8048565)
Linear address: 31/221/63 (1026048)
root@walker:~# fdisk_v2.1 /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 268 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1 64 513008 83 Linux native
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 0, 33)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(500, 63, 32) logical=(63, 221, 30)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(500, 63, 32) should be (500, 254, 63)
/dev/sda2 502 64 128 513024 83 Linux native
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(501, 0, 1) logical=(63, 221, 31)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1001, 63, 32) logical=(127, 187, 60)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1001, 63, 32) should be (1001, 254, 63)
/dev/sda3 1003 128 192 513024 83 Linux native
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1002, 0, 1) logical=(127, 187, 61)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 63, 32) logical=(191, 154, 27)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 63, 32) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/sda4 1024 192 269 614400 5 Extended
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 63, 32) logical=(191, 154, 28)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 63, 32) logical=(268, 24, 12)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 63, 32) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/sda5 1024 192 199 52208 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 1024 199 262 513008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 1024 262 269 49136 83 Linux native
Command (m for help): q
root@walker:~# fdisk_v3.04 -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 268 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0+ 63- 64- 513008 83 Linux native
start: (c,h,s) expected (0,0,33) found (0,1,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (63,221,30) found (500,63,32)
partition ends on cylinder 500, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda2 63+ 127- 64- 513024 83 Linux native
start: (c,h,s) expected (63,221,31) found (501,0,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (127,187,60) found (1001,63,32)
partition ends on cylinder 1001, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda3 127+ 191- 64- 513024 83 Linux native
start: (c,h,s) expected (127,187,61) found (1002,0,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (191,154,27) found (1023,63,32)
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda4 191+ 268- 77- 614400 5 DOS Extended
start: (c,h,s) expected (191,154,28) found (1023,63,32)
end: (c,h,s) expected (268,24,12) found (1023,63,32)
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda5 191+ 198- 7- 52208 82 Linux swap
start: (c,h,s) expected (191,154,60) found (1023,63,32)
end: (c,h,s) expected (198,27,21) found (1023,63,32)
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda6 198+ 261- 64- 513008 83 Linux native
start: (c,h,s) expected (198,27,54) found (1023,63,32)
end: (c,h,s) expected (261,248,51) found (1023,63,32)
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
/dev/sda7 261+ 268- 7- 49136 83 Linux native
start: (c,h,s) expected (261,249,21) found (1023,63,32)
end: (c,h,s) expected (268,24,12) found (1023,63,32)
partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk
Command (m for help): v
Warning: partition 3 overlaps partition 5.
Warning: partition 3 overlaps partition 6.
Warning: partition 5 overlaps partition 6.
Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 7.
Logical partition 5 not entirely in partition 4
Logical partition 6 not entirely in partition 4
981017 unallocated sectors
Command (m for help): q
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after adjusting heads/sectors/cylinders:
NOTE: I didn't write it to disk !!!
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root@walker:~# fdisk_v2.1 /dev/sda
[adjusting cut]
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 2103 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1 501 513008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 502 502 1002 513024 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 1003 1003 1503 513024 83 Linux native
/dev/sda4 1024 1504 2103 614400 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1024 1504 1554 52208 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 1024 1555 2055 513008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 2048 2056 2103 49136 83 Linux native