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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.9-rc3-mm2] EDD: use EXTENDED READ command, add CONFIG_EDD_SKIP_MB
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...

--Chuck Ebbert 09-Oct-04 00:30:52
Current book: Stephen King: The Waste Lands
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