IDE on linux-2.4.18

IDE on linux-2.4.18

[Richard B. Johnson]

Hello IDE gurus,

I tried to install Linux-2.4.18 on a machine with IDE drives.
The machine ran fine with Linux-2.4.1. It won't mount the
root file-system because:

hda:	Cannot handle device with more than 16 heads giving up.

That's a real nice help. The device has 1024 cylinders, 255 heads
and 63 sectors. This is 6,422 MB. An attempt to set 16 heads in
the BIOS will allow access to only 528 MB, which is wrong.

So what is the magic incantation necessary to get the IDE
subsystem to work like it used to?


Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

	Bill Gates? Who?

Re: IDE on linux-2.4.18

[Alan Cox]

> hda:	Cannot handle device with more than 16 heads giving up.

You enabled the old ST506 driver not the newer IDE one

Re: IDE on linux-2.4.18

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > hda:	Cannot handle device with more than 16 heads giving up.
> 
> You enabled the old ST506 driver not the newer IDE one
> 
I don't think so. If I put append= "hda=1024,255,63" in LILO it works,
although I think I'm working around something that's broken.

Here's `dmesg` after the hack.


Linux version 2.4.18 (root@blackhole) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)) #12 SMP Mon Mar 11 09:56:04 EST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ffc000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000007ffc000 - 0000000007fff000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000007fff000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 32764
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28668 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=new root=305 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 nmi_watchdog=0 hda=1024,255,63
ide_setup: hda=1024,255,63
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 752.835 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1500.77 BogoMIPS
Memory: 126440k/131056k available (1012k kernel code, 4228k reserved, 232k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 732.05 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 752.8208 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 100.3760 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1003760, slice: 501880
CPU0<T0:1003760,T1:501872,D:8,S:501880,C:1003760>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0890, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0596] at 00:04.0
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 23) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:04.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX10.2A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FX4830T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
hd: unable to get major 3 for hard disk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 421k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=2
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
Adding Swap: 72252k swap-space (priority -1)
ohci1394: $Revision: 1.80 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[5]  MMIO=[df800000-df800800]  Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Device added: node 1:1023, GUID 080028500000ffff
raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
eth0: PCI device 8086:1229, 00:02:B3:03:3B:BE, IRQ 10.
  Board assembly 721383-016, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
Analogic(tm) GPIB Driver: No GPIB device at (0x0300)
Analogic(tm) GPIB Driver: Initialization complete
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)


Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

	Bill Gates? Who?

Re: IDE on linux-2.4.18

[Alan Cox]

> hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA(33)
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> hd: unable to get major 3 for hard disk

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Case dismissed ;)

Re: IDE on linux-2.4.18

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA(33)
> > Partition check:
> >  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> > hd: unable to get major 3 for hard disk
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Case dismissed ;)

I haven't a clue what you are saying. Every IDE option that is allowed
is enabled in .config. The IDE drive(s) are found, but you imply, no
state, that I did something wrong. You state that I haven't enabled
something? I enabled everything that 'make config` allowed me to
enable. Now what is it?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

	Bill Gates? Who?

Re: IDE on linux-2.4.18

[Alan Cox]

> > >  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> > > hd: unable to get major 3 for hard disk
> > 
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > Case dismissed ;)
> 
> I haven't a clue what you are saying. Every IDE option that is allowed
> is enabled in .config. The IDE drive(s) are found, but you imply, no

You have the old hd driver enabled which is what caused your problem

Re: IDE on linux-2.4.18

[Gunther Mayer]

"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA(33)
> > > Partition check:
> > >  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> > > hd: unable to get major 3 for hard disk
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Case dismissed ;)
>
> I haven't a clue what you are saying. Every IDE option that is allowed
> is enabled in .config. The IDE drive(s) are found, but you imply, no
> state, that I did something wrong. You state that I haven't enabled
> something? I enabled everything that 'make config` allowed me to
> enable. Now what is it?

You enabled too much(see hd.c):

    dep_bool '  Use old disk-only driver on primary interface'
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE

will hog "major 3" (which is needed by IDE driver later).

Re: IDE on linux-2.4.18

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Gunther Mayer wrote:

> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > > hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA(33)
> > > > Partition check:
> > > >  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
> > > > hd: unable to get major 3 for hard disk
> > >
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > Case dismissed ;)
> >
> > I haven't a clue what you are saying. Every IDE option that is allowed
> > is enabled in .config. The IDE drive(s) are found, but you imply, no
> > state, that I did something wrong. You state that I haven't enabled
> > something? I enabled everything that 'make config` allowed me to
> > enable. Now what is it?
> 
> You enabled too much(see hd.c):
> 
>     dep_bool '  Use old disk-only driver on primary interface'
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE
> 
> will hog "major 3" (which is needed by IDE driver later).
> 

Okay. Thanks. I will try without CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE

> 

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

	Bill Gates? Who?