It really does sound like its the kernel thats the problem though, you could search google and also upgrade your kernel, its over 5 months since mdk9 kernel came out now.
JG
Wolf N. Paul wrote:
I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk working on my Mdk 9.0 system.When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk was virginal from the store, and now that I have created a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. If I append "hdh=noprobe" to the boot prompt, I can boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the drive just before the partition check, like so: "hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe" which corresponds to an example in the kernel source Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. Any hints? Any ideas? Regards, Wolf N. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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