Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:28:15 -0500 | From | Jeremy Jackson <> | Subject | Re: Promise Ultra100 IDE PDC20265 chip problem |
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Peter.Havens@Level3.com wrote:
> (I am not subscribed to this list, if it is in fact a list. Please CC any > replies to me directly - Thanks) > > I am attempting to install the new beta release of Red Hat (fisher) on my > home computer. It has an Asus A7V motherboard and a Promise Ultra100 IDE > controller (PDC20265 chip), with two partitions. Windows ME is installed in > the first partition. The second one is where I'm attempting to install Red > Hat. > > In previous releases of the Linux kernel, my hard drive was not seen at all. > I could go all the way up to the point in the Red Hat installation where it > wanted to do disk geometry, and then said that I didn't have any mass media > device. Searching through various mail archives lead me to believe the
> culprit was the PDC20265 controller chip and the fact that it was too new to > be recognized. > > In the new kernel 2.4.0 (and thereby the fisher release of Red Hat), I now > see the error below printed out to the console when booting from the Red Hat > installation floppy. After the error is printed out, my computer hangs. I > apologize in advance if this is not a Linux kernel issue, and appreciate any > help that can be provided. > > --Pete > > [snip] > > PDC 20265: chipset revision 2 > PDC 20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > [snip] > > Partition Check: > hde: [PTBL] [1826/255/63] hde1 hde2 < hde5hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hde: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=32885055, sector=0 > hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > [last repeats 3-4 times] > > hde: DMA disabled >
this looks like a sign that the kernel you're using is configured to try to use
harddisk DMA right at boot. That *could* cause problems in rare cases. SectorIdNotFound looks like a bad sector on the harddisk though. looks like you can't get into linux at all... try scandisk from windows on Thorough setting (have to format linux partition as fat32 first).
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