I am trying to install linux on a new, empty harddisk but the ide driver
fails to handle my drive properly.
I am using a (kernel 2.0.25) bootdisk. The kernel is starting, the my
harddisk is found and its id-string is output to the screen:
BMI B5256B ENHANCED IDE 2.56 Gigabyte, 2443 MB, w/256 kB Cache, LBA,
CHS=620/128/63.
As far as up to this point everything seems ok, but then during the
partition check:
hda: set_geometry_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: set_geometry_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=0/0/0, Sector=0
After these messages the driver does a reset on the ide bus and tries
again, fails again and does a second reset.
So the driver cannot read the partition table.
If I try to run fdisk /dev/hda I get the message "unable to read from
/dev/hda" and fdisk terminates...
Also a "cat /dev/hda > /dev/null" doesn't work, it quits with the message
i/o error on dev/hda...
I checked out multiple configurations (drive in LBA mode,
drive in normal mode, drive as slave on an ide bus, drive master and
only device, etc.) and it always fails the same way as descibed above.
However, with DOS / Win95 I have no problems creating partitions or
installing DOS / Win95.
Any ideas and suggestions are welcome.
Please send me your mail directly, because I am not subscribed to the
kernel mailing list.
Tanks in advance
Daniel.