RE: [cobalt-developers] 300 GB Maxtor HDD in Qube 3

["H.P. Noordam" <bno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Verzonden: zondag 16 november 2003 21:56
> Aan: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Onderwerp: [cobalt-developers] 300 GB Maxtor HDD in Qube 3
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get a 300 GB Maxtor HD working in a Qube 3. The 
> HD has already been lowlevel formated (which took some days). 
> The kernel freezes in the boot process when it is trying to 
> detect the partitions on the drive (please see below 
> screenshot). The system has cmos romrev 2.9.36 and the kernel 
> is 2.4.19C7_III.
> 
> Can someone give me hint on how to change the kernel 
> commandline so I can try to change the parameters for hdc 
> (like nodma, fixed geometry)?
> 
> There seems to be no lilo on the machine I don't have a clue 
> how to tell the kernel what to do but the machine has to have 
> the setting somewhere as you can go: [root 2.4]# cat 
> /proc/cmdline console=ttyS0,115200 ip=off and there are some 
> parameters.
> 
> Any other experience in getting large disk up and running in 
> Qube 3 are much appreciated too.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 
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> This is the output of the kernel while booting:
> 
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override 
> with idebus=xx
> ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
> ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
> ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> hda: ST320410A, SN=5FG0DFB7, FWREV=3.34, ATA DISK drive
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override 
> with idebus=xx
> hdc: Maxtor 5A300J0, SN=A80ZMLQE, FWREV=RAMB1TV0Maxtor 
> 5A300J0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, 
> CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33)
> hdc: 585940320 sectors (300001 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=36473/255/63,
> UDMA(33)
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3 hda4
>  hdc:
> 


Anything bigger then 120GB will be recognized, but can not be used. You
will have to scale down to 120GB for IDE, or use SCSI drives,

Bob.