Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 1997 23:34:41 -0700 | From | Curtiss Cicco <> | Subject | hdb when no hdb attached in 2.1.36 |
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Today I installed a new Quantum Fireball hard drive and now i'm getting messages about hdb at boot up. The thing is that nothing is attached as a slave on the primary IDE interface; it's even disabled in my bios. Here's some output of my syslog.
kernel: hda: Maxtor 71626 AP, ATA DISK drive kernel: hdb: non-IDE drive, CHS=935/128/63 kernel: hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A, ATA DISK drive kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 kernel: hdb: DMA disabled kernel: hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 128 PHYSICAL HEADS? kernel: hdc: DMA disabled kernel: Started kswapd v 1.23 kernel: Partition check: kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 kernel: hdc: hdc1 hdc2
What could be causing a phantom drive to be showing up?
On another note with the Quantum. No matter which two partition sizes I use for the drive, fdisk keeps warning me of partition 1 overlapping partition 2. Here's my partition printout.
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 1 2084 1050304+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc2 2048 2085 7480 2719584 83 Linux native
In this output it looks like partition 2 is overlapping into partition 1 opposite of what fdisk reports. In this instance when I partitioned the drive I explicitly chose 1-2084 for partition 1 and 2085-7480 for partition 2. So somehow partition 2 is beginning before the start of what I specified. After writing the partition table, rebooting, and running mke2fs on the partitions I'm able to mount and access these partitions with no apparent problems. My only concern is when I start writing files to these partitions I might eventually lose data due to these overlaps.
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