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SubjectRe: 2.2.9 probs (ide hd, quota, 128MB (+sort))

This is an ATA-66 problem on an ATA-33 chipset.
Major BIOS wierdness, and no code to correct.
I put an UDMA-4 drive on several UDMA-2 limited chipsets and things got
really problematic.

On Sun, 23 May 1999, Guest section DW wrote:

> From: Sami Farin <sfarin@ratol.fi>
>
> Hi. I have Abit BX6 rev.2.0 ver.HJ, Mendocino 83.333*5.5 MHz,
> egcs-1.1.2, binutils-2.9.1.0.23, RH50+updates (a lot)...
>
> problem #1: my IBM DTTA 351350 IDE-disk isn't detected in a sane way.
>
> Yes, this hdparm and kernel output looks very messy.
> One problem that I have pointed out earlier is that both kernel
> and hdparm-3.5 contain the very ugly expression
>
> *(int *)&id->cur_capacity0
>
> which is wrong on various architectures because of endianness
> assumptions, and also because cur_capacity0 is not aligned on
> an integer boundary.
>
> These are bugs in hdparm-3.5 and the 2.2.9 kernel,
> easily solved because the fragments of code that contain this expression
> are completely bogus (look at the remapping 2557/255/63 -> 13572/1020/63
> that hdparm invents!) and should just be deleted.
>
>
> But your problem is probably caused by something else.
> Hmm, the model number suggests a 13.5 GB disk.
>
> RawCHS=40768/16/63 and CurCHS=2557/255/63 belong to a 21 GB disk.
>
> CurSects=872152947, and LBA CHS=13572/1020/63 Remapping, LBAsects=833818160
> belong to a 400+ GB disk.
>
> Model={sM-wwws=37s3u2p, FwRev=T5Gosw3q, SerialNo=WWrww3q663w
>
> kernel: hdd: [rM-wwwq=37s353p, ATA DISK drive
> kernel: hdd: {sM-wwwq=37s3u3p, ATA DISK drive
> kernel: hdd: _~M-t~TA-35135v>, ATA DISK drive
> kernel: hdd: _~M-t~TA-35135v>, ATA DISK drive
>
> The Model and type seem damaged - it should probably be something
> like
> Model=IBM-DTTA-351350, FwRev=T??IA??A, SerialNo=WW?WW??????
> with kernel report
> hdd: IBM-DTTA-351350, 12897MB w/464kB Cache, CHS=26205/16/63
>
>
> So, this could be a disk hardware problem (does this disk report its identity
> correctly under other kernels?) or an IDE driver problem, or random kernel
> memory corruption via a wild pointer or so, or just plain bad memory.
>
>
>
> You can try to distinguish such cases (i) by booting an old and good kernel,
> (ii) by use of hdparm -I instead of hdparm -i ,
> (iii) by using the same disk on another machine.
>

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy


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