Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Oct 2004 01:13:58 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc3-mm2] EDD: use EXTENDED READ command, add CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MB |
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Matt Domsch wrote:
> Then BIOS says you've got two more disks. > Both disks 82 and 83 look remarkably small (20808 sectors each, > ~10MB). And I would bet there's no media present, as there's no > mbr_signature field given... So BIOS says there's a disk there, but > there really isn't. Which could cause the kind of timeout you're > seeing. To what are these attached? It's the BIOS for this > controller that's probably what's lying.
Some Dell notebooks do this, IIRC. Try removing the HD from a Latitude CPi or CPiA and then booting from a floppy distro like tomsrtbt (from www.toms.net). It's been a while but that 20808 number looks awfully familiar...
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