I recently ran into trouble getting a large drive to work. I was not using
UDMA/66; nevertheless, it ended up being a BIOS upgrade that was needed. Seeing
that is is UDMA/66 you are using, it would not surprise me if the support for it is
in its young stages. Check the BIOS and eliminate it as a cause.
Tim
Steve Philp wrote:
> Civileme wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I picked up an 18G Western Digital drive today that hangs off the Ultra66
> > > interface of my BP6 board.
> > >
> > > I've taken a rather circuitous route in putting this drive into service
> > > because it doesn't appear that the 6.1 CD uses a boot kernel that recognizes
> > > the interface. I ended up booting on my old drive, mounting the new one,
> > > and copying everything over. That part went fine.
> > >
> > > In order to boot from the drive, I needed to get LILO into the MBR. No
> > > problem, edit /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab and write the new boot block,
> > > right? It looked that way. I ended up with just 'LI' on the screen.
> > >
> > > Booted with the install CD and got that fixed up (remind me sometime to post
> > > about how to use the install CD for rescueing boot problems!)
> > >
> > > I've now got a system that shows only the /dev/hde (the new drive) being
> > > mounted, yet file accesses are _really_ going to the old /dev/hda. Okay,
> > > boot with "linux root=/dev/hde3" and we're off.
> > >
> > > I edited /etc/lilo.conf and ensured that everything mentioned /dev/hde as
> > > well as ensuring that /etc/fstab was correcty. Reran LILO and rebooted the
> > > system.
> > >
> > > All I get is 01's rolling through the screen. I'm now just using "linux
> > > root=/dev/hde3" to boot my machine and use the new drive. It'll work until
> > > I can get this sorted out...
> > >
> > > I'm sure it's something incredibly stupid, but what have I missed?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Steve Philp
> > > Network Administrator
> > > Advance Packaging Corporation
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I've seen 01s before, on disks that were scored by air freight handlers (just
> > got one in today on a Digital Celebris 6200. the speaker was bounding around
> > inside, as well as a few other small parts.
> >
> > The other suggestion I have heard is when your system and your BIOS think the
> > disk is configured in different ways, like Normal vs LBA or perhaps Large.
>
> The thing is, I don't see a way to adjust the mapping of the UDMA/66
> drives like I'd have for a normal drive.
>
> I finally just took out the old drive and attempted an install onto the
> new drive. There's some LILO stuff you can pass to get it to recognize
> the extra controller. But, after installation, I get just the 'LI' when
> trying to boot.
>
> So, I've now moved the UDMA/66 drive onto the normal cable and the
> install there went just fine. Booting works also, so I'll wait a bit
> before I screw it up again. :)
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
