Try a patch off the kernel mirror under ./people/hedrick
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, James W. Perry wrote:
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> Ran into a weird bug today in the latest kernel (2.2.10).. I've been
> running 2.2.5-15smp for a while now (came with RedHat 6), and finally
> decided to upgrade (I'm hoping the networking bugs I hit are fixed).
> Anyway, when I reboot into 2.2.10 the kernel halted at the line listed
> below. Can't figure out why, I compiled everything into the kernel that
> should be there. This computer doesn't quite support LBA mode, and my
> harddrive's 5.1gb, so I'm using a bootdisk with LDLINUX.SYS. Anyway,
> here's the line (note that this log is from my 2.2.5-15 kernel, since I
> can't write to disk on the 2.2.10. I'm pretty sure they look exactly the
> same, though.)
>
> PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcb0-0xfcb7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> hda: Maxtor 85120A8, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50)
> hdb: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50)
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: Maxtor 85120A8, 4884MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=10585/15/63
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> 8regs : 219.075 MB/sec
> 32regs : 159.639 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (219.075 MB/sec)
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> Partition check:
> hda: (computer freezes here)
>
> In the 2.2.5-15 kernel, that last line reads "hda: hda1 hda2 hda3" (as it
> should).
>
> fdisk dump:
> Using /dev/hda as default device!
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 10585.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 10585 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 3 1386 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 4 281 131355 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda3 282 10585 4868640 83 Linux
>
>
> /dev/hda3 is my boot partition. /dev/hda1 is for experimental stuff, but
> I mount it manually so it can't be causing this mess.
>
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>
> -jim
>
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Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
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