I just installed an ibm model 34gxp 20GB hard drive on my dual celeron
box using the HPT366 udma 66 controller on my abit bp6 motherboard.
After checking the hpt366 setup, I made a stab at installing mandrake
7.0 on it. During the install, man70 says that the udma66 is not
completely compatible with linux and would I like to make a boot floppy
to install with it. I did that, rebooted with the new install floppy but
it was a no joy - system locked during install. The stock 7.0 install
would not recognize the presence of the new drive either.
Then I booted to the 2.3.51 smp kernel that I have working and it
recognized the drive and allowed me to partition and format it. When I
attempted to run hdparm on the drive I got the following error:
with the -i option I got a dump of the drive data followed by this
message:
could not allocate sharedmem buf: invalid argument
with the -tT options I got the same error message twice.
Tried the same thing with my redhat development system booting to a
2.3.99-pre1 kernel and got exactly the same results.
Any insights?
Tom
PS
Have to go celebrate the life of my aunt who past away this week. She
was over a hundred when she tossed the towel. I'll be back after we've
done her justice.
