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> 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? > I have a Maxtor 160GB drive attached to a cheap CMD ATA/133 controller card and havent had any issues with it at all (mdk 9.0) I do have these lines in the global options of my lilo.conf though: disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdg bios=0x82 HTH, Mark. - -- Mark Watts Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key available on request. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ULdSBn4EFUVUIO0RAmj5AJ9+TmPTkGdf4P8xSgugnKNLcwkAkACgnzHc +FK6PeJGB1cMfdeKmZWb4+I= =qwM2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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