IDE drives and 2.0.34/5

Anders Henriksson (andhe@ida.liu.se)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:59:10 +0200

The question is simple, should I access my 4.3GB ide drives as Normal, LBA or Large? Does the linux kernel care?

Up to the 2.0.33 kernel Normal works fine but from 2.0.34 I cant make it work.
I suspect that part of the problem is that my bios won't recognise my discs correctly if I use LBA or Large, and maybe I should. I can fix this with fdisk but the kernel still doesn't work properly.

Any suggestions?

Details: p200MMX, TX chipset, 96MB ram, 2 * 4.3GB fujitsu ide drives

Symptoms: Booting the 2.0.34+ kernel destroys the file system beyond repair causing a kernel panic in the next boot (failed to mount root...)

I have also provoked the 2.0.34 kernel to dump the following messages on the screen:writing x/y buffers
What does this mean?

Any help is greatly appreciated

/Anders

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